This medium-sized woodpecker is quite a good looking bird. The male has a red head and nape, whereas the female only has a red nape with a brownish head. They will come to your feeders for sunflower chips, cracked corn, grape jelly, and suet amoung other things. I have found that they really like the trail mix bird seed in a tube feeder (as seen in above pictures.) This trail mix seed has sunflower seeds, dried fruits, raisins, and peanuts. (And probably some other things I am forgetting.)
This tube type feeder has been a big hit with the Downy woodpeckers as well. I have three that regularly visit the feeder. Other birds not of the woodpecker persuasion like to come to this feeder such as chickadees, titmouses, and cardinals.
