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Each year while dressing down my deer I save all the fat. When the deer are all processed I put all the fat in an old roaster and bake it at about 300 degrees for five hours to render the liquid fat from it. I pour the liquid fat into a large enamel-ware pot and let it cool some then stir in sunflower pieces and hearts along with a 16 ounce jar of cheap chunky peanut butter, stirring to keep the seed mixed into the cooling fat until I can't stir it any more. I have two birch logs drilled with 2" holes and stuff the fat into the holes then hang the logs. Woodpeckers love the logs. The cracklings from the rendering get stuffed into 1 pound coffee containers and are used in a cylinder shaped wire basket. Woodys are all over those too. Recently this guy has been a regular at one of the logs. This log is only 7 feet from the window so I get a good view.
This one has a scar in the white band just back and slightly above the eye. Other pileated woodys that come don't have this mark and on this one its not present on the other side so he's easy to identify. At times he's a regular goofball. I enjoy watching the birds right outside of the window and this guy is a real entertainer.
Here's one on the cage with the cracklings that's a bit younger, most likely from last summer's brood.
This one has a scar in the white band just back and slightly above the eye. Other pileated woodys that come don't have this mark and on this one its not present on the other side so he's easy to identify. At times he's a regular goofball. I enjoy watching the birds right outside of the window and this guy is a real entertainer.
Here's one on the cage with the cracklings that's a bit younger, most likely from last summer's brood.
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