Fun! We do too on our cylinder of butcher suet!.....mostly males and an occasional chickadee. It has been rather quiet as the jays  and starlings can't easily land on it!
Linka Lewis
South Strafford

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> On Oct 25, 2015, at 3:56 PM, Connie Snyder <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> We have Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers at our cylinder feeder of black
> oil sunflower seed but while they keep "working" the feeder, they
> don't eat the seed.  They just "fling it", apparently convinced that
> if they can just get all this stuff out of the way, they'll find the
> bugs or grubs they are certain are in there somewhere.  This seems to
> happen every fall.
> 
> Connie Snyder
> 
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