Woodpecker
bird feeders are a great way to attract woodpeckers to your yard.
Woodpeckers are a great bird to have in your yard because they eat
insects and bugs that are in and on your trees as well as your garden.
A woodpecker will eat grasshoppers, flies, wasps, beetles, grubs
and can eat thousands of carpenter ants a day.
A
great way to keep these pecking birds in your yard is to offer them their
own woodpecker bird feeder.
The bird feeder that is best suited
for a woodpecker is a suet
bird feeder.
Suet cakes are available in a variety of styles from peanut, seed,
berry and raisin flavors.
Another favorite of woodpeckers and a great woodpecker feeder would
be a perching bird feeder.
This type of perching bird feeder would include a platform bird
feeder. It
is important that there is lots of perching space on your bird feeder for
the woodpecker.
On your platform woodpecker bird feeder be sure to include
woodpeckers’ favorite seed, black oil sunflower.
Some woodpeckers will come to your platform
bird feeder if you have cracked corn or grapes, raisins and apples.
Woodpeckers and other flickers
also enjoy drinking sweet nectar, just like orioles and humming birds.
You can place a hummingbird
feeder or an oriole nectar bird feeder in
your yard as a treat to the woodpeckers that you have attracted. With a
humming bird feeder, or a nectar feeder make sure that the feeding holes
are large enough for the woodpeckers beak.
There
are many different varieties of woodpeckers, as well as different sizes.
The most common type of woodpecker you are to seed at your
woodpecker feeder would be the Common Flicker, Red-headed Woodpecker and
the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker.
If you are lucky you may even attract a Pileated Woodpecker to your
woodpecker feeder.
These are only a few types of woodpeckers there are at least 10
different types of woodpeckers that you could attract to your backyard
wild bird feeding station.