Feed them with woodpecker suet cakes.
Keep woodpeckers off wooden siding.
Besides the problem of the hole in your siding it can also attract other birds or even squirrels that will see it as the perfect place for a nest.
Woodpeckers can be attracted to your home if you have wood siding or live in a log home.
This method works particularly well if they are attacking your cedar siding in search of insects set these up away from your house and the woodpeckers should leave you alone.
If you notice woodpeckers pecking and prying your wood siding or trim a call to the exterminator may be warranted as it may mean you have bees termites or other insect invaders to address.
Woodpecker suet cakes are one of these birds favorite foods.
Keep large trees away from the house.
Woodpeckers like most north american birds are protected by federal laws meaning that you cannot legally kill them as a pest control method.
Woodpeckers can find even this wood irresistible and they will start to make a hole in it in no time.
Because of this when woodpeckers begin pecking your home and causing damage you must use a non lethal control method to get rid of them.