Re: Red-bellied woodpecker and Brown creeper
- From: "BirdJim@xxxxxxx" <BirdJim@xxxxxxx>
- Date: 30 Dec 2005 08:59:48 -0800
Ann wrote:
> And when I saw the woodpecker the brown creeper was on the
> same tree about a foot higher on the trunk! I've only very
> rarely seen a brown creeper here and now one has appeared
> twice this winter. Haven't seen the creeper at the suet
> dough feeder. But now the male and female downies and the
> carolina wrens have to share suet with the red bellied again!
Ann,
I feed the birds a homemade suet cake made from lard, cornmeal, flour
and oats. The cake is placed in one of those wire cages and hung from
the side of a large tree. The suet cake crumbs that fall due to the
feeding activity get stuck in the bark of the tree. The creepers love
to feed on those crumbs. Sometime they get up to the source of the
crumbs, the cake itself. They eat from the cake only for a little while
as their natural urge to fly down to the bottom of a tree and feed
while working up takes over.
Jim Kittinger
Warrick County
Southwestern IN
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