Woodpeckes Woodpeckers eat a variety of foods such as insects, suet, sunflower seeds, corn, peanuts, peanut butter, acorns, berries and grain. You can set up different types of bird feeders to help attract woodpeckers.
Woodpeckers enjoy eating from feeders such as peanut feeders.
Woodpeckers will eat from platform or tray feeders filled with peanuts and sunflower. Some woodpeckers will eat corn, raisins and apples from platform feeders. Make sure your feeder has plenty of perching space for the woodpeckers to hold onto. Hang the feeder in an area near trees and shrubs. Sometimes woodpeckers can be Picture taken by Dave, Western Pennsylvania found drinking sugar water from hummingbird feeders Consider planting fruit or berry producing trees or shrubs such as dogwood, and apple trees.