Only attracting downy woodpecker and no others? (1 Viewer)

[Redhummer]

Hello everyone, I have a question regarding feeding woodpeckers. I only seem to be attracting downy woodpeckers and no others. I haven’t been feeding them to long so I’m new at this. Is it to early to see other species at the feeders or does it just take a long while to attract them. I have suet feeders up, seed out, peanuts, logs with peanut butter in and bird baths. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Nightjar61]

Because you just put the suet and other food out, the other species probably haven’t found it yet. They will. And Downy Woodpeckers are generally more common than the other types of woodpeckers so you’ll probably see more of them than the others.

Dave

 

[Redhummer]

Hello everyone, I have a question regarding feeding woodpeckers. I only seem to be attracting downy woodpeckers and no others. I haven’t been feeding them to long so I’m new at this. Is it to early to see other species at the feeders or does it just take a long while to attract them. I have suet feeders up, seed out, peanuts, logs with peanut butter in and bird baths. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Thanks for your reply. I thought the downy were more common. Hopefully I’ll see some other ones soon thanks

 

[Scott98]

There are TONS of downy woodpeckers around here in Mass. You never know with feeders, you have to be patient. There are things we don't understand. Maybe a red-tail hawk has made your yard its home and the other birds know it.

Just this morning I awoke to a ruckus outside and looked out the window and saw a group of crows harrassing and chasing a red-tail into a tree. I think the red-tail has been nesting on my property or right nearby the last 2 years.

 

[Hapworth]

I must have gotten lucky. Just started in the hobby and going about it very casually. Went to a park, which was too large and too open to attract many birds, but as I was leaving the park, I spotted a red-bellied woodpecker going to and fro with a large nut/acorn, flying to a split in the stalk of a palm tree where it had made its home/nest. Then walking around the residential homes, I saw a cardinal, three white ibises (they frequently come in flocks of two dozen and land on people's lawns pecking around for food), and a small heron. These are my first experiences with birds, so I'm learning what birds are frequent here in Florida. I think that woodpeckers are, cardinals too. I'd already seen lots of ibises, sandhill cranes, and vultures because they are all very common.

 

[Montereyman]

Where I live there are 4 woodpecker species but on my property which has lots of coastal oaks it is only the acorn woodpeckers that use the feeders and that is only during the breeding season. The small downy woodpeckers when present are spending all their time hunting for insects on the oak branches.

The acorn woodpeckers go for whole shelled peanuts and sunflower kernels and ignore anything else in the feeders.