There are 3 varieties of woodpecker to be found in the British Isles; greater spotted, lesser spotted, and green. They mostly inhabit woodlands of England, Wales, and Southern regions of Scotland.
In more recent years they have become savvier and will venture into gardens on the lookout for food to top up their diet of insects and grubs. Their preferences vary among the breeds, berries, nuts, and suet are amongst some of their favourites. He has a yellow underbelly and a red cap, males also have a little red moustache. He is a ground feeder, his beak is designed to hollow out nesting spaces, not to tunnel for food.
You are likely to see green woodpeckers down on the lawn on the hunt for ants. In winter they will eat other small invertebrates when the ants are harder to come by. These are the seeds found inside pine cones. The woodpecker uses his beak and barbed tongue to extract them from fallen pine cones.
Woodpeckers vary their diet depending on what is most accessible. The sap is plentiful in the spring when the trees awaken from their winter rest, and their sap rises up through their trunks. Rich and sweet, woodpeckers eat their fill in the early spring, when no other food is available.
Late Spring and Summer are a time of plenty for woodpeckers, with insects having hatched. These protein-rich insects are a perfect source of food for breeding birds and growing hatchlings. Nuts, seeds, and fruit begin to take over as we head into winter. Winter is a difficult time for all birds, but woodpeckers make do with seeds and nuts, as well as any lingering fruits that have held on despite the frost.
Some woodpeckers ever store food, caching food for times of scarcity. Like squirrels, they will collect food during the warmer months and save them away by hiding them under loose bark, tree hollows, or even underground. Although it is quite disturbing, certain species of woodpeckers do indeed eat the eggs and hatchlings of other birds. They frequently attack nests and steal the contents of it, sometimes eating it then and there, or taking them back to its own nest.
Building or buying nest boxes will help provide safe places for woodpeckers to live, and our woodpecker nest boxes allow them to build their own home with starter material included. If there are any dead trees in your garden, try not to remove them completely unless they are dangerous. Woodpeckers like to hollow out rotting wood and live inside tree stumps, so cut the dead tree down to a safe height that will stop it from becoming unstable and see if it becomes a habitat for woodpeckers.
They also like to forage for food in living trees too, as they have beaks strong enough to break through the outer bark and search for insects and larvae inside. Offering food and water is especially important in attracting woodpeckers to your garden. Rather than placing water on a bird table, put it on a dish at ground level in a well-sheltered corner of the garden.
Excess fat from cooking such as lard or dripping can be used to attract woodpeckers to your garden if you prepare it in the right way. Mix it with sunflower seeds, dried fruit and bird feed and once dried, find a container to place it in and hang it from a tree.
You can also collect acorns and leave them strewn across the garden as woodpeckers like to munch on these. Like all birds, woodpeckers eat a variety of different foods. Birders who offer a range of foods, both naturally and in the appropriate feeders, can easily attract woodpeckers with hearty appetites all year long.
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