Description

I make my own small tray feeders–it’s a lot cheaper than buying them, and it’s more fun–using sheets of perforated aluminum or plastic for the bottoms. I’ve found that, when I put out tray feeders with a variety of foods–seeds, fruit, nuts, dried mealworms– most birds, including woodpeckers, seem to like having all the food choices laid out before them, where they can pick out what they’d like at a given moment. Of course, my suet feeders still get a lot of action from woodpeckers.

Category

Woodpeckers & Sapsuckers

Species

• Red-bellied Woodpecker

Tags

• 6 Mar 2017
• Melanerpes carolinus
• Red-bellied Woodpecker
• tray feeder
• female