wooden hopper style bird feeder

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a very large wood pecker was using the prop boards this morning! it was so exciting! I think it was bigger than the red belly! definitively not the big black piliated, haha. that would be amazing to see. we have a few of those in our area & I do have pics of one & even chicks sticking their head out of a tree behind out house

 

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handheld & had to photo through the dirty double pane back slider cuz the cat wants to run out. hard to clean up a bad photo. but so happy the prop boards are getting used

 

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zero activity at the suet. nothing, nada, the big goose egg

I find different species have different preferences at different times if year. Robins seem to like fat balls/suet but eg blue tits don't. In winter blue tits tend to prefer peanuts but will switch to sunflower hearts when peanuts are getting low but won't switch to fat balls/suet. In summer blue tits don't touch sunflower hearts but only sunflower hearts.

I don't feed dried mealworms mainly as in nesting season they are dangerous for hatchlings (not yet fledged have to het all their water from their good ant caught caterpillars, etc. have a good water content but dried mealworms (much loved by parents) don't ...