Content

• Steps
• Method 1 of 2: Part One: Make Your Garden More Attractive to Woodpeckers
• Method 2 of 2: Part Two: Make Your Garden More Attractive to Other Birds
• Tips
• Warnings
• Additional articles

Woodpeckers are beautiful, amazing birds that can be found in woodland areas. They eat large numbers of unwanted insects, and provide bird lovers with hours of fun watching. Since they stay in one place all year round, you can see them all year round. Here are some ways to attract woodpeckers to your garden.

Steps

Method 1 of 2: Part One: Make Your Garden More Attractive to Woodpeckers

1. 1 Know your woodpeckers. There are many species of woodpeckers. Knowing what species of woodpeckers you have can help you understand what kind of food you need to use, where to hang the feeder, and what else you can do to attract these birds.
   • The downy woodpecker has black and white plumage. This woodpecker loves troughs with lard, and is happy to eat even from inverted troughs.
   • The hairy woodpecker looks like a downy woodpecker, but its beak is longer, and it is much more fearful than its counterpart. These woodpeckers generally do not eat from feeders.
   • The golden broad-billed woodpecker is a polka-dot woodpecker. When it flies, you can see yellow and red spots and it is covered with a unique black markings. These birds usually eat insects from the ground or near the ground, although they can occasionally visit feeders.
   • Crested yellow, red-headed melanerpes and Caroline melanerpes. The Crested Yellow is a crow-sized bird and rarely eats from feeders. The red-headed melanerpe is a rare bird, the population of which can grow if nesting boxes are placed on them. These birds feed on fruits, nuts, grains, other small birds, and small rodents. The Caroline melanerpe is a medium sized bird with a bright red head and belly, and the rest of its body is mostly black in color. These birds eat from wire and nut feeders.
   • The Lewis Woodpecker and the Red-capped Sucker Woodpecker are two of the rarest species of woodpeckers. The Lewis Woodpecker is a medium sized bird with a gray breast, dark red head and pink belly. She eats insects that are in the trees. The red-capped sucker woodpecker prefers to feed on willow sap, but can also eat from other trees.
2. 2 Choose the right food. Woodpeckers love nuts, insects, seeds and are attracted to feeders that have the food they can find in nature. By offering the right food, you can attract a wide variety of birds to your garden.
   • Lard is a tough fat found around the organs of cows and rams. This is one of the favorite foods of woodpeckers. Salo is sold in chunks, and you can place it in special inverted feeders that do not attract starlings - a species of attacking birds - but do attract woodpeckers and tits.
   • It is not recommended to feed the birds with lard during the warm, summer months, as the lard melts and sticks to the birds' wings. This is dangerous because during the summer months the eggs are incubated, and the interior fat clogs the pores of the eggs, preventing air from entering the embryo.
   • Woodpeckers love nuts and grains, especially peanuts and black seeds, and are a cheap solution to the feed problem.
   • Fruit is another type of food that woodpeckers will happily eat. Cut oranges, and especially apples, attract woodpeckers and contain many nutrients that birds need to keep them healthy.
   • Flour beetle, these are beetle larvae Tenebrio molitor... You can put them in deep troughs, from which they cannot get out. Flour beetles can be kept for weeks after their manufacture at a temperature of 5-10 degrees.
3. 3 Choose the right feeder. Although woodpeckers spend most of their time looking for natural food sources such as beetle larvae, spiders, ants, and other insects, you can attract these birds to your garden if you choose the right place for your feeder.
   • Vertical feeders will be able to keep birds in the correct position while feeding.
   • Position feeders to mimic the birds' natural feeding areas. Salt feeders, for example, are best placed next to trees.
   • Hang feeders in quiet places to keep birds safe. Well-lit, sunny locations are also not a bad choice, as it will make it easier for you to keep an eye out for vigilant woodpeckers.
4. 4 Provide them with water. Woodpeckers will visit bird baths to drink water and bathe. They prefer quiet, secluded baths closer to the ground. The bathtub should be 3-5 cm deep.
   • You can put a small fountain with flowing water in the shade, far from the center of the garden. To make the tub more attractive to woodpeckers, you can place small perches around the tub.
   • During the cold, winter months, you must be vigilant so that ice does not form in the fountains. The easiest and most sustainable way to provide water for birds during the winter is to expose a plastic bowl of water at the same time every day. Remove the bowl when ice starts to form in it.
5. 5 Provide them with a home. Like most birds, woodpeckers love solitude. Conifers and deciduous trees provide woodpeckers with the necessary shelter and food. Planting some of these trees will help woodpeckers feel safe.
   • By planting low-growing shrubs at the base of trees, you will give woodpeckers the necessary sense of security and an additional source of food.
   • Some woodpeckers, like the crested woodpecker, love dry trees. Instead of removing them from your garden, try to leave them for woodpeckers to build a nest there.
   • In winter, you can hang birdhouses in your garden. Choose the right places as this is very important. Try to hang the birdhouse near vegetation that woodpeckers prefer. By hanging the birdhouse high, you can protect them from predators. You can buy a birdhouse or make your own. Birdhouses should have holes for ventilation, they should be easy to clean, and they should be sturdy.

Method 2 of 2: Part Two: Make Your Garden More Attractive to Other Birds

Woodpeckers are just the beginning. If you want to have many different birds in your garden, there are many things you can do about it.

1. 1 If you do not live in a woodpecker area, you can attract common birds. Here are some of the first steps you can take to become a bluebird.
2. 2 During the cold winter months, you should consider helping the songbirds.
3. 3 If you want to test your skill, you can build a birdhouse or bird bath.
4. 4 Want to go on a bird hike? Find out all the information you need, from preparation to choosing the best places to find the birds you want.

Tips

• Check lard chunks as they go bad quickly. You can either buy this lard from a poultry retailer or make your own.
• If you want ideas on what you can plant to attract woodpeckers to your garden, think about pines (for their sap) and oaks (woodpeckers love acorns).

Warnings

• Watch out for birdhouses.Aggressive birds can attack nests, break eggs and kill chicks.
• Be careful with predators. Cats, raccoons, snakes and other predators are a big threat to eggs and young chicks. There are baffles that you can place on the outside of the nesting boxes, thus keeping the predators out of the nest.

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