property if there is wood esp soft wood

neighbor put up a bird feeder and attracted wood peckers damaging everyone . the strips and eye worked . old cds on a string if you are short on cash as they are reflective
They are not easy to leave a place

to branches. Also, there are squirrels living in them. I hope it will not scare them off. But I definitely have to do something, so it is reflective tape here I come.

Also, I'm not sure what a "bid eye" is.

I never used this company to buy but here is the explanation
https://www.birdbgone.com/bird-b-gone-scare-balloon.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIz_Lgus2b2QIVS7nACh2WPAioEAQYAyABEgLR2vD_BwE

Also you can but 200 ft of tape on line pretty cheap , tie something heavy with the tape throw it over the high limb then tie down both ends to around the trunk
It's pretty strong tape
Yes our yard looked like shit for awhile but better than destroying our house & after a while we able to just keep up a few ribbons and the eye which was enough
Oh and they will be back
keep the stuff for next year
Never bothered the squirrels still sitting up in trees nesting etc.
from that site
https://www.birdbgone.com/pest-bird-profiles/woodpeckers.html

neither one had anything. I will order from Amazon today and should get it by Monday. In the meantime. I have hung strips of aluminum foil the best I could. Hope that will act as a deterrent until I can buy the real thing.

I was VERY glad to hear that it didn't scare the squirrels away. I feed ours bread and they are quite tame. I hate that I will not be able to feed the birds also.

I will keep my deterrents until next year, but am hoping since they didn't get much of a toe-hold in my yard before I discovered them, that maybe they won't be back.

Unfortunately, I live in Florida and I am afraid it would be an all year around problem.

Thanks so much for your help.

without harming the tree.

So we took down all the bird feeders.

We had the same problem but, once we installed the suet/suet feeder, it ended.

Doesn’t attract other birds. Just squirrels, but we can defeat that.

The reflective tape works well to get rid of woodpeckers and a cd at the end is a good idea.

just trying to eat the insects that are eating the tree from the inside.