I put out peanut butter for the birds, but the larger ones, like woodpeckers blue jays and even doves will gobble it up. In order to give smaller birds like chickadees and nuthatches a chance at it, I strung a line and loosely tied some pine cones to it. I put peanut butter in them, and small birds have no trouble with it. However, the big birds have trouble perching on the wire and getting peanut butter out of a pine cone that keeps spinning around the line when they peck at it. It's fun to watch their efforts though.
