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This Morning Outside

by Diane Porter

March 7, 2014
Birdwatching Dot Com
Fairfield, Iowa

Today everybody loved the upside-down suet feeder. One after another, all five species of our resident woodpeckers came to the suet feeder. Plus a black-capped chickadee.

Red-headed Woodpecker© 2014 Diane Porter

Red-headed Woodpecker

 

Northern Flicker
© 2014 Diane Porter

Female Northern Flicker

 

Red-bellied Woodpecker
© 2014 Diane Porter

Male Red-bellied Woodpecker

 

Hairy Woodpecker

Male Hairy Woodpecker

 

Downy Woodpecker© 2014 Diane Porter

Male Downy Woodpecker

 

Black-capped Chickadee© 2014 Diane Porter

Black-capped Chickadee

—Diane Porter

Chickadee on hand

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Feeders for woodpeckers

Suet basketWoodpeckers like suet, which is rendered animal fat. We purchase suet cakes that fit neatly into suet feeders.

There's another one that we like looking at. It's the Suet Upside Down Box Feeder. Woodpeckers are fine with feeding from below, but starlings can't manage it.

Suet Upside Down Box

It lets the little birds in and keeps the squirrels and starlings out.

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