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bobberineyes Grand Master

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My kid made this house a few years back, all was good until this year I noticed something was beating it up. It's on a metal pole 13 feet up so I was thinking some how squirrels were getting up until I seen the culprit... a friggen woodpecker!! Is it the plywood?? Should have he made it out of cedar? 

Not sure if there's a coincidence but I put out a suet feeder this winter and lots of different woodpeckers around... 

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15 minutes ago, bobberineyes said:

Well i wasn't sure if its the glue in the plywood or what. Have they been known to do tge same to a cedar or redwood built house?

 

I would bet some cash there is a ton of lady bugs that wintered in there! ;)

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On 3/24/2018 at 2:32 PM, bobberineyes said:

Well i wasn't sure if its the glue in the plywood or what. Have they been known to do tge same to a cedar or redwood built house?

Yes.   Mostly they follow little voids in the plywood looking for bugs.   We also had them try to make a hole in the cedar boards in front, and in the soffit.  Sometimes they are looking for food, which isn't as much a mess, and sometimes they want to nest and that is a bigger deal, only less frequent.    

 

I would think the ones working on your birdhouse were trying to enlarge the hole so they could nest there.   

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