Sorry to hear about the problem. Our neighbors have a stucco'd exterior (or something that seems like that -- at least, it's not wood) to their house and this past year, the flickers wreaked havoc on it. Holes all around, some quite large. They also tried taping up aluminum foil, a motion-activated hooting mechanical owl, and using his expensive bird-distress call recording that usually is reserved for when the cherries are ripening on his 6 or so large cherry trees. Still the holes got larger/more abundant. Once through the outer stucco shell, underneath was a softer matrix so the birds were willing to work to get to that. Just passing this on because of the mention that perhaps the birds would not be interested in something that wasn't wood (cedar). Perhaps if it is thick and hard enough, but it needs to be thick and hard, from what we've observed.....



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"..... We're considering cementitious siding on that quadrant of the wall ... maybe it will be too hard for the birds, or at least not as tasty as pure cedar."





Dee Warnock

Edmonds, WA

Beachdee at hotmail.com

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