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That $60 suet feeder that scared off all my woodpeckers
I bought one of those fancy metal suet feeders with the tail prop for woodpeckers last month. Paid $60 at the local Wild Birds Unlimited store. Figured it would be better than the cheap cage I had. Wrong. The birds took one look at that shiny metal and refused to touch it. I left it out for two weeks with fresh suet and not a single downy or hairy showed up. The day I swapped back to the old plastic cage they were back within hours. So I wasted $60 on something that actually made my backyard worse. Has anyone else had birds reject a feeder based on the material it was made from?
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dakotal161mo ago
I mean woodpeckers actually eat suet not metal so it's probably something else scaring them off
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