Pileated Woodpecker pair eating Bark Butter® June 9, 2017
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- If you enjoyed the Pileated Woodpecker feeder footage from last week, you'll love this one, too. I went back to this SW Gainesville back yard and got a bunch of great footage of both the female and the male eating Bark Butter.
The footage of the male is first. There are two relatively easy ways to tell the sexes apart. In Pileated Woodpeckers, the red in the male's head extends from the crest all the way forward to the base of the bill. In the female, the red stops about halfway to the base of the bill. The male also has a malar (cheek) stripe of red. The female's cheek stripe is black.
![Birds on Bark Butter [NARRATED]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ASE72moPGPU/mqdefault.jpg)
They're so beautiful. Definitely among my favorite birds together with crows and ravens.
Super cool video ❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️
this is awesome. saw one in the woods last month. upstate Ny
We have a pair in our back woods but they haven’t come to our feeders yet but I am hoping!
Very interesting!
I haven’t had one bird eat from the bark & bark butter I bought. I’ve tried hanging it in two places. I mostly put out the pepper bark butter, but I’ve tried both flavors. Maybe I should try less of the pepper flavored & more of the other. I just don’t know.
If it's a new thing in the yard it can often take a while before birds become regular consumers. How long has it been? Where (approximately) are you? What kind of feeder(s) do you have? Are there other active feeders in the yard? These are just a few starter questions. If you'd like, we could do a phone consultation complete with a look at your property using GoogleEarth. If you're local, we even have a "feederscaping" service. If you're not local to us then you might have a WBU nearby that would do the same thing.
Either way, take heart in your failure to attract birds with Bark Butter. It's my number one most popular food but my neighbor, whose feeders I can see from my kitchen window, gave me all of his Bark Butter and swore it off forever. You can see from the video evidence and the length of the bird list that WBU keeps, Bark Butter is the real deal. It's just something we have to work through given the particulars of your yard.
Only problem with vertical suet logs are grackles and blackbirds. I had to put mine horizontal.
I just ordered a log feeder to attract Pileateds!
Bark Butter? Butter, butter? We've been trying to get the pileated's to come visit our yard. I can hear them very close in a few dogwoods nearby.
It can be a long haul. This summer was unusual in that so many people had pileated activity at feeders. I hope Bark Butter will do this over the longer term.
What is bark butter???
Just wondering what kind of camera you use to film this. Thanks!
I was using two GoPros for this footage. One is the Hero5 Black and the other is the Hero4 Silver.
I have seen 4 Pileated woodpeckers this year and have heard countless more, but I haven't gotten any of them to visit my feeder. Got any tips? I have suet, and a small platform for birds that don't like hanging feeders.
Prior to this past summer, I had only known of a few dozen cases of Pileateds as feeder birds in this area over the course of many years. Almost every one of them was coming to suet, usually a pressed mo-melt cake in a tail prop style feeder. Since the advent of Bark Butter and feeders like the one in the video and social media pulling so many people with stories out of the woodwork, I'd say that the combination you see above is the way to go. Other people are reporting PIWOs at seed feeders when they can eat peanuts or tree nuts but, again, spreadable suet and log-style feeders are the way to go. Even with the apparent increase in feeder visits, PIWOs are still uncommon at feeders at best. Stick with it and at least you should build activity up among other species and then, hopefully, one day, your PIWO activity will start.
william schlegel What brand peanut butter & what variety of seeds do you put out?
What is that in the tree stump that they are eating?
It's spreadable suet (rendered beef kidney fat). The brand is called Bark Butter.
I live in palm beach county do you know if there are any good bird stores down here
I have no idea about that area although we do have a few SEFL customers who call and mail order from us. We're about to launch a brand new e-commerce site. Should be a month or two and you'll be able to shop much of what we have in the store at least in terms of core feeding and hardware merchandise.