January
5th, 2015. We took down the log feeder during the summer. It was
simply too hot to retain the peanut butter-vegetable shortening-seed mix in the
holes. We put the feeder up about a week ago.
Within
a day, a female Downy Woodpecker (Picoides
pubescens) found the feeder again. Yesterday,
I saw a female on the feeder and two more one the tree trunk above. Later in
the day, a male Downy Woodpecker also found the feeder.
This
morning, as a female Downy Woodpecker was feeding on the log, I noticed another
woodpecker high on the tree trunk above the feeder.
The
first male Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes
carolinus). He backed his way down and around the tree trunk until he could
just hop across to the feeder.
He
spent some time feeding before he flew off into the woods. Hopefully, we'll see a female before too long.
It’s
great to have the woodpeckers back again.
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