When my wife woke me up this morning, she was excited.  A Red Bellied Woodpecker landed on our suet feeder and she was able to get a fairly decent picture of it...Sure enough it was a female Red Bellied.  To me that is a first, again, for our feeder.

The she told me what I didn't want to hear..."Yeah, it's been coming here for the past week about 8:30 or so every morning."..I bang my head on my pillow.

So I've had a red bellied woodpecker coming to my feeder for about a week now.  So  hopefully I can get up early enough to catch it on digital film so I can add it to my list.  I have some Red Bellied pictures, but they are from yards away.  

Does anyone use "real" suet for their feeder?  I have aquired some beef fat and was wondering what I am to do with it.  Do I render it out, and add seeds, or do I just put it in like it is?... Any one have any good "recipes"? Thanks in advance.

Steve Jones
a.k.a. sjlarue

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