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Hungry Woodpecker Chowing On Suet (Video)

32 comments Hungry Woodpecker Chowing On Suet (Video)

Check out this gorgeous video of a lovely pileated woodpecker chowing down on the contents of a suet feeder.

The GoPro camera catches a unique close-up view of this bird. I’m not sure if the camera is motion-activated, or this was just lucky timing – but what a fantastic video!

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11:12AM PST on Mar 5, 2012

WOW, what a beautiful bird! I wish I had some of those visit my feeder! Great timing! Thanks for sharing!

12:59AM PST on Mar 3, 2012

Thanks for the article.

11:57AM PST on Mar 2, 2012

Super cool.

8:16AM PST on Mar 2, 2012

I HAVE NEVER SEEN ONE EXCEPT IN PICTURES, WE HAVE DOWNY WOODPEKERS AT OUR FEEDER!

4:28AM PST on Mar 2, 2012

Clever birdie !

12:00AM PST on Mar 2, 2012

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
---St. Francis of Assisi


10:42PM PST on Mar 1, 2012

Great video.......I often said that A lot of feeders and suet should hang outside the window of the common area of nursing homes. We have a glass sunroom that we spend a lot of time in simply watching the birds....So much fun !!!

9:03PM PST on Mar 1, 2012

These birds are fantastic in the wild.

7:47PM PST on Mar 1, 2012

thank you

6:31PM PST on Mar 1, 2012

Woodpeckers are great!We have one smaller kind visiting quite often on our yard(very tiny little backyard) eating the the suet-balls with seed. I feed the birds all winter and now they really need that because we have quite cold and lots of snow.
In the spring,when they have the fledglings (baby birds??) they also come to have a quick supper :) so the busy parents also have some food =D

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