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(2,235 posts)apcalc
(4,461 posts)Btw, Woody woodpecker was based on a pileated.
We get those downy woodpeckers all year by the dozen here in Illinois as a lot of places. They are fun.
They will wait in the surrounding trees in winter for their turns on the suet and peanut feeders. We also get a fair amount of Northern Flickers. The Pileated are harder to get as I've read that a single pair may have a territorial radius of 5 or 6 km.
SergeStorms
(18,903 posts)right in my backyard. I love the Woodpeckers. I get Downies, Red Bellied, and the occasional Pileated.
I notice in the video that the ubiquitous Starling is raiding the suet block. I absolutely hate Starlings. They'll attack the other birds to protect "their" food source, and actually killed a Downy Woodpecker in my back yard. They'll wipe out a suet block in two days. There is nothing beneficial or worthwhile about Starlings. Nothing.