3 out of 4 of my bird boxes have been mangled by a Greater Spotted woodpecker. Going to have to ferret around in the wood bin and find some hardwood or marine ply to make some more resilient face plates.
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Should’ve used a good hardwood! 😉

laminate?
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1/2″ thick steel plate? give him a headache!

This week’s First World Problem award goes to….

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I thought it was going to be about bird’s deficating on your car!

RSPB

http://shopping.rspb.org.uk/nestbox-plate-25mm.html

there’s a 32mm version too. But the vandals may try the sides or back.

Permanent solution.

Madness leaving a nice bird box like that lying around in the woods- keep it locked safely in the shed.

Hop onto the RSPB website. Their shop has various metal plates with bird sized holes to screw onto bird boxes to stop things expanding the holes to gain access for whatever reason.

That 2nd one I could cope with as its very neatly done. The others were clearly the work of hooligans

£2.50 a plate? You’re mocking bird me.

Chew on this Woody, you ****!
18mm construction ply. Should hold him up a bit.
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Paint some of that bitter stuff around it they used to put on kids to stop them chewing their nails.

phew… I misread the title of this thread while scanning the list and thought it was going to be horrifically racist…

It is, but against woodpeckers. We have GSWP comes to the nuts, get to watch him/her teaching the young how to wedge nuts in the tree to eat them at moment. Is ace…

He’ll have them screws out, soon as it gets dark.

Was there anything inside the boxes? I remember a small bird checking out a box that I’d put up. Twenty minutes of tap-tap-tap from the inside, all around it sounded like.

I thought you’d make something similar out of checker plate.

dont have any metal plate lying around unfortunately.

Only put the boxes up 5 weeks ago so not expecting much this season, just want the birds to get used to them being there first without flappy ASBO wrecking them.

I (mis)read that first word as ‘Asian’. I was a bit startled, to be honest 😯

Was thinking myself it’s a little late in the season for a second brood.

However I’m amazed at how many new ducklings there are out on the canal today, quite late me thinks. Naughty heron keeps picking them off for lunch.

Trusty 16 sprocket, Shimano.

Woodpeckers have to nest and eat too 😥

Woodpeckers have to nest and eat too

Won’t somebody think of the (Woodpecker) children?

We had one go through about an inch of beech to get into the back of a box & lunch one some baby blue tits so that ply might not do the job…

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Woodpeckers managed to take one of our radio sites off air by pecking the denso tape around one of the aerial connectors full of seeds at the top of a 30m mast and allowing water in. Result; no coverage. Two new aerials, phasing harness and cutting a feeder cable back as the internal insulation was sodden and we were back on the air; for how long I’m not sure as all day were were being “told off” by the woody massif 😀

the worst vandals for our nest box is the residents themselves, fat ol’ pregnant mrs bluetit always wants a bigger exit so hubby is pecking away.