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Pileated Woodpecker at suet feeder

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Norman Woodley

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Norman Woodley

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Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:40:52 -0500

This morning I was quite surprised to see a Pileated Woodpecker at my suet 
feeder.  I have a standard sized cage suet feeder on the central post to my 
wooden seed feeder (which is squirrel proof), and the PIWO was sitting in 
the feeder gobbling away at the suet.  Our house has a large backyard, 
mostly left natural, with a few large trees, and across the street is a 
small patch of woods.  I have seen PIWO a few times in or near the yard in 
the past 4 years, but never at the suet feeder, which is commonly visited 
by Red-bellied and Downy woodpeckers, and, unfortunately starlings among 
others.  I thought a Pileated visiting a feeder was quite unusual, but 
maybe it wouldn't be in a more wooded habitat.

Norm Woodley

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Norman E. Woodley
North Potomac, MD  20878-4742