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And with a real taste for whatever was in that tree. Never noticed them after a spruce tree before proving again how little I know. 
Diet: Pileated woodpeckers are primarily insect eaters. Their favourite food is carpenter ants. They listen for ant activity in an old rotting tree and then pound away. Once through the wood, they use their long, barbed and very sticky tongue to get the ants. Pileateds also feed on ground ants, beetles, cluster flies, moths, mosquitoes, caterpillars and other larvae as well as a small amount of fruits and nuts such as wild grapes, dogwood berries, cherries, and acorns.
The addition of oak trees and fruit-bearing shrubs and trees may help supplement the diet of any resident pileated woodpeckers. If you are very lucky, you might even be able to entice them to your bird feeder. The most tempting bait is suet.
Diet: Pileated woodpeckers are primarily insect eaters. Their favourite food is carpenter ants. They listen for ant activity in an old rotting tree and then pound away. Once through the wood, they use their long, barbed and very sticky tongue to get the ants. Pileateds also feed on ground ants, beetles, cluster flies, moths, mosquitoes, caterpillars and other larvae as well as a small amount of fruits and nuts such as wild grapes, dogwood berries, cherries, and acorns.
The addition of oak trees and fruit-bearing shrubs and trees may help supplement the diet of any resident pileated woodpeckers. If you are very lucky, you might even be able to entice them to your bird feeder. The most tempting bait is suet.
