we don't get the pileated woodpeckers here but when i lived down south i saw them eating most often on the suet logs. most were homemade small diameter logs or thick branches cut maybe 1 foot to 2 foot long with holes drilled in them and stuffed with peanut butter suet mix and hung up out in the yard. maybe it seemed more natural to them?

Great photo! Almost all of the times I've seen them, they're on tree stumps, chomping away.

Your picture is beautiful, as usual Bev! Konrad........you're so right about nature flourishing, if we just leave it alone.......even all the dying things. There are so many creatures that depend on things that so many people view as "ugly" and are far too eager to take them out.

thanks! I don't see him consistently but of and on...I hope it's the same one. I think I'll just build a house (it's easy enough), put it up, and keep my fingers crossed. I have 2 dead trees at the perimeter of my yard that are perfect so maybe I'll get lucky!