Nature & Wildlife Thread

[Alice_Bee]

what are you feeding woodpeckers?

 

[j.w]

Wheres the yellow belly. Lol

Now that bird is the one I see all the time here that I thought was some kind of small woodpecker! Mystery solved, thanks!

 

[j.w]

Wait it says they don't come around here

 

[Burd]

I wish I had a better way of taking pics. My phone just doesn’t take good wildlife pics. I have 3 kinds of woodpeckers but now I’m not sure What is what. Lol

 

[Burd]

what are you feeding woodpeckers?

Me, I have a suet block hanging, the small woodpeckers seem to like that, the larger ones love the shelled peanut feeder I hung up.
bluejaysn nuthatches, woodpeckers, chickadees, titmice all love picking out peanuts.

 

[BKHpondcritters]

what are you feeding woodpeckers?

I have suet available (their favorite flavor seems to be the peanut one) as well as a large 'bug cake' which is made up of mealworms & sunflower chips held together by gelatin. The woodpeckers also love whole peanuts, so we usually add some of those to the seed mix in the platform feeder.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Me, I have a suet block hanging, the small woodpeckers seem to like that, the larger ones love the shelled peanut feeder I hung up.
bluejaysn nuthatches, woodpeckers, chickadees, titmice all love picking out peanuts.

They love suet. I also put out Fruit and Nut bird food. Another of their favorites.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Decided to take a snowy hike this morning. Starting to get tired of winter, so this may be the last wintry hike I take this season. It was a nice one, though!

Of course, I had to visit the new prairie restoration again (seeded in mid-December).

 

[j.w]

Beautiful @JBtheExplorer and I am so jealous of all your snow!

 

[Burd]

I thought it was the raccoon who knocked my feeder off. Lol.

 

[Burd]

I think I’ll get some deer feed. Is there such a thing as deer feed?

 

[j.w]

Well they are always happy in a field of corn but I hear that is really not that good for them. Maybe the stalks are better?
Found this on the net: https://www.wikihow.com/Feed-Deer

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Is there such a thing as deer feed?

Well, they sure like to feed on my young trees I planted a couple years back. Every summer, the trees grow above the cage height, and every winter the deer eat them back down. Not sure my trees will ever get any taller.

 

[GBBUDD]

corn . apples, salt bricks. Deer will go for just about anything especially dead of winter

 

[BarbO]

Pansies and Violas are candy for them. They grow in winter here.