do woodpeckers eat safflower seeds
Diet: Downy woodpeckers eat mainly insects found by hammering at dead wood. Their favorite seed is sunflower hearts and they also love peanut suet cakes. Downy woodpeckers also eat black oil and striped sunflower seeds, safflower, and cracked corn. They will feed at tube feeders and suet feeders. At Wild Bird and Garden we have foods that downy woodpeckers love like our Woodpecker Favorite seed mix, peanut suet, and sunflower chips.