vegetablebelay Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 I have been getting a visit from a woodpecker every morning around 6:30 or 7:00. He sits up on top of my metal chimney and hammers away at the top of the chimney. The resonating chimney and fireplace roars through my house. He is quite wiley and takes off whenever I open the door to get a shot at him with the bb gun. He also takes off if I light a piece of newspaper and smoke him out but I don't want to get up in the morning to make a fire anymore. Suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allthumbs Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 slather the chimney with rat poison slury necro sells the stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Flash_Amazing Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 Buy some chicken wire, and fashion it into a large tube or box about 6" larger than your chimney, and place it over the top of the chimney so he can't get at it. Might be kind of ugly, but it should keep his ham-ham-hammering ass off your chimney. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allthumbs Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 get up earlier than the bird shows up and lay ambush on him. a bb gun isn't enuf. no less than a pellet gun, or better yet .22 short ( quiet and deadly). Shoot him in the back of the head between the ears (if he had any). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
specialed Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 Maybe he doesn't exist. Except in your mind as part of your guilty conscious telling you to get your lazy ass out of bed already because its time to get up and train or go to work.   ...But wasn't this dillemna the plot of every Woody Woodpecker cartoon ever made. Dude, you live in cartoon land  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 vegetablebelay said: I have been getting a visit from a woodpecker every morning around 6:30 or 7:00. He sits up on top of my metal chimney and hammers away at the top of the chimney. The resonating chimney and fireplace roars through my house. He is quite wiley and takes off whenever I open the door to get a shot at him with the bb gun. He also takes off if I light a piece of newspaper and smoke him out but I don't want to get up in the morning to make a fire anymore. Suggestions? Â hes doing it cause of the noise it makes. its mating season right now and it is the males that "pound pecker". the louder the noise, the stronger the male and the chicks dig it. he's goin for the metal cause its louder than wood. sort of like stuffing a rolled up sock down your pants. shooting him is pretty drastic when all you have to do is wait a week or two. just leave the cat on the roof for a while, till mating season is over. Â or muffle the metal, wrap some foam around it, no more prob. - if it dont make noise he wont hit it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allthumbs Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 woodpecker's taste like chicken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 trask said: peckers taste yummy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allthumbs Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 very witty, Cheesehead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexual_chocolate Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 Yeah, VB, please don't shoot the thing. Wrap your chimney. Easiest and cheapest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allthumbs Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 shoot to kill VB the bastard deserves to die Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexual_chocolate Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 trask said: very witty, Cheesehead  He got 167 on the IQ test; he can't help it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 putting a fake owl on the chimney might help too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allthumbs Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 sexual_chocolate said: trask said: very witty, Cheesehead  He got 167 on the IQ test; he can't help it! SC, you may talk to me as long as it's not about politics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allthumbs Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 Dru said: putting a fake owl on the chimney might help too. those owls don't work. we put a wire thing that spins on our boats. bugs the seagulls...they won't land and shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexual_chocolate Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 Trask, shut up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allthumbs Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 up yours Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 trask said: Dru said: putting a fake owl on the chimney might help too. those owls don't work. we put a wire thing that spins on our boats. bugs the seagulls...they won't land and shit. Â Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexual_chocolate Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 Do not frighten the woodpecker, please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allthumbs Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 how 'bout gater guard? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allthumbs Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 sexual_chocolate said: Do not frighten the woodpecker, please. kill the bitch and eat it raw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexual_chocolate Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 Do not hurt the woodpecker, please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric8 Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 I had the same probelm with the a woodpecker once. I shot it everyday for a week with a pellet gun (It was a weak ass pellet gun). If my neighbors weren't so close I would have brought out the shotgun from day 1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Attitude Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 Woodpeckers are people, too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 Â snafflepecker woodhound Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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