Anyway, I was looking at the suet cakes wondering which to buy. Fruit? Nut? Fruit and Nut? For song birds? On and on...the one that I was interested in said " For Woodpeckers" It then went on to say it would attract all types of those little pecker birds.
I thought sure it would. What is so different that this type would attract them over the other types of suet. It seemed to have the same things in it as the other suet's. Seeds, berries nuts. Why was it so special?
Well I bought the Woodpecker suet cake and a couple of others for the other feeders.
Later in the day I went out to hang the suet cake that would attract all the peckers from the neighborhood.
Since it was later in the day I didn't sit and watch the feeder. By the next day I had forgotten I was going to sit and watch that woodpecker feeder.
That afternoon I was on the computer when out of the corner of my eye I saw movement. I looked up and low and behold I had a tree full of wood peckers. Several kinds of woodpeckers. In fact as I write this there is one at the suet feeder and one waiting it's turn in the Lilac Bush.
There is a female Hairy Woodpecker at the feeder.
Here are both male and female Hairy Woodpeckers
There was some Downy Woodpeckers also
So similar it is hard to tell the difference. The Hairy Woody's are bigger then the downys are.
The suet attracted a Flicker also
Later in the day the Red-Breasted Woodpecker came to visit
But my all time goal for Woodpeckers is Woody Woodpecker......a Pileated Woodpecker
a Flicker and a Pileated Woodpecker at a feeder.
I saw one at a State Park close to me this Fall.
But I want to see one in my yard. And they do visit backyard feeders. I know people who get them.
All in all me buying a Woodpecker suet cake was a huge success!
No comments:
Post a Comment