Game camera problems, need solutions

[Mike D]

What I've found is that they typically only mess with the cams that have the dark colored fresnel lens. I haven't had them mess with any of mine that have the opaque white colored lenses.

[TexasCanesFan]

Chances are the birds are looking for bugs... a pesticide applied to the camera to keep bugs away will help also... then there's the old SSS too...

[Mudslinger]

I was told by some that the sounds that these cameras make when taking pics causes the woodpeckers to think there are bugs inside the body and thus, "peck" away at the lens to try and get the bugs.

[WCB]

Never had this problem but the wires where that can't land on it or a varmint cage around it sounds plausible.

Or blast them SOBs...

I watched a woodpecker land and get corn from under my feeder Saturday evening. First time I've seen that. It would fly into the trees around me and peck the kernels, eat some and fly down to get another. Did that for 20 minutes or so.

It was a Red Bellied Woodpecker

[TexasCanesFan]

I was told by some that the sounds that these cameras make when taking pics causes the woodpeckers to think there are bugs inside the body and thus, "peck" away at the lens to try and get the bugs.

That makes sense.

[Roscoe]

I think it's the shape/size and color of the lenses. It almost has a hole in a tree look about to the birds.