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 ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]