Garden birdwatching will grow on you. Find out what gear you need to get started birdwatching. Practice birding on your computer. Here's a short exerpt from this book. If you give the birds several kinds of feeders, placed in different locations, you'll have more bird visitors.
Woodpeckers look for their food on tree trunks.
They like a feeder filled with beef suet or bird cake. There are special bird feeders made for this. You could also put the suet or bird cake into an empty mesh bag, the kind onions or lemons are sold in. Hang the feeder against the tree trunk closest to your house, and you'll have woodpeckers tapping. Some birds, such as juncos, song sparrows and mourning doves, like to eat on the ground.