I am so jealous! I haven't seen Lewis Woodpeckers since I lived in Colorado in the early 80s!

I've never seen one of those before! I didn't know they liked fruits so much, so I'll have to put some out for mine. I mostly get downy, red-headed, pileated, and hairy.

don't know about your woodpeckers but i have a pair of lewis's woodpeckers who have nested here last 3 years. i also have lots of orioles and i put out fruit and jelly and watermelon for the orioles, the young Lewis's love the jelly and watermelon and eat lots of fruit and they come back every year. i also have downeys and hairys and flickers that use the same feeders as the Lewis's

they are found mostly on the western side of the rockies and the mountains of the west coast and prefer areas that have burned in recent forest fires and their main diet in warm weather are the beetles and bugs and insects that swarm in to the dead trees. i was born in Utah and grew up in Nevada and worked mostly in Colorado and Washington in the log woods and sawmills and see them mostly in the mountains in summer. here i'm in the foothills and they nest in april or may and after their young are good flyers they head up into the forests till the snows drive them down lower again.