Woodpeckers

Northern Flickers are mostly ground-feeding woodpeckers. They prefer insects like ants and beetles, but in…

I love my spreadable suet feeders, but I wish the House Sparrows weren’t able to…

The migrating songbirds are starting to show up in Southern Wisconsin, and some of them…

Recently, I’ve seen more woodpeckers at our backyard feeders than ever before. They love the…

After years of trial and error I determined that the suet cake that attracts the…

The good news is the birds finally found my new birch suet feeder. The bad…

I never noticed how long a Northern Flicker’s beak is until one starting showing up…

We’ve lived in our house for over 3 decades now, and up until now I…

I already had problems in late fall with starlings and grackles hogging all the suet…

It doesn’t look much like spring around here after about 10 more inches of snow…