Anyone use a NO NO feeder?

I keep looking at these online. Anyone use it and do you like it? What birds use it? I know most people want the small birds, but I love my jays & cardinals. I even love my big goofy crows!

I am also trying to figure a way to the Pileated WP to our yard. Any ideas??

Try a sandwich suet feeder in the winter for the Pileateds; I'm trying it once the weather gets cooler.

I have a no no feeder and its really nice but the squirrels can really bend the wiring if you let them get to it.

the squirls figured out how to get in my no no feeder

If you hang suet out right now, you should get the piliated woodpeckers in, but beware, just one can eat a whole cake in one day.
I find I see them more in very late summer, early fall, than any other time of the year.

I too like the big birds as well as the small.

I have a no no feeder that I thought I just HAD to have because I like perching birds.... I do, however NOT like perching squirrels and even with a baffler over the feeder, the little buggers could get on it and feast like there was no tomorrow.
I just put cheap seed in there now, knowing they'll eat the majority of it.
All woodpeckers love the suet cake in my backyard, and i've been fortunate to attract a pileated to it. Mine has the tail prop on it which helps them cling since they use their tails for balance. I know it sounds silly, but I want to make them comfortable when they're dining at my establishment!

Do they then leave better tips? LOL
That is so nice of you. Better for viewing too, I suppose.

It is, cpartschick, because their tails are flattened against the prop part and not curved under the feeder like those without the tail prop that they have to hang on to for dear life!

Mine hang on for dear life. I think I should look into the tail prop option.
Do you have a picture of yours?

Here's what I have.... it's really cool.

I see, thanks. I know that I like to rest my tail once in a while. I need to think of those poor birds.
This also looks like it is harder for the raccoons to steal. They seem to like to take the feeder with them. And I then I have to play, find the feeder.

I have one of the woodpecker feeders with the tail prop too. Mine is from WBU and mad from recycled plastic. I just didn't know if they would come to it. I have seen some that are bigger or double and wondered if one of those might be better. I like to make the comfy too!! LOL

We had a Pileated come twice back late winter. I hear them but would really like to draw them in. They are just too cool!! I never knew they existed till we saw it.

I keep rejecting feeders because they don't look like they have enough 'landing room' for the big boys & girls!

I did find a small size hanging try too at WBU that I put BOSS & peanuts in and the jays, cardinals and RBWP juvies really like. The adult RB go to it sometimes but use the suet feeder more.

I love my WP's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I know all about the hide and go seek game with feeders. I went to refill one of those finch socks the other day and it was long gone.... just the hook remained. I looked around and low and behold, there it was, hanging out of a squirrel nest. Guess he thought it was a meal to go.

ROTFL Judy!

Nanny I love the woodpeckers too! I'm hoping the Flickers I've seen will come to the sandwich suet feeder this winter. With the sandwich one you can only use the regular suet not NO Melt.

"Guess he thought it was a meal to go." LOL!!!1

That is one smart squirrel. No stretch marks on those cheeks of his. He must have thought it was a "to go" bag like nanny said.
Didn't you feel bad taking his winter food? Nah, I wouldn't have either. Bugger!

I think I'm going to plant several Scrub Oaks or Live Oaks ...... the gnarled looking trees in our canyons 20 miles west. The bushy tailed ground squirrels love them and we don't have any in our yard yet. I've only seen 1 in 5 years. I have a beautiful oak but it is not enough to keep a pack of bushy tailed ground squirrels happy enough to stay here. We have hundreds of tiny gophers or shovel tailed squirrels (don't know if there is a difference). They are cute but they eat my flowers, especially the Asters as the grow in the spring time. We use large mouse traps to keep them away but there are hundreds and hunndreds of them.

be careful what you wish for Photographer!!!!

LOL, I was kind of thinking the same thing seeing how destructive squirrels can be.

Oh my gosh; hundreds of the tiny gophers Photographer? That must be awful!

It sounds like you need a few Hawks.

LOL, maybe a few Dozen!

pelletory, We have hawks circling our field non-stop every day from dawn till dusk and then the owls take over. We have Great Horned Owls and enormous Barn Owls here daily. Actually we've even had Bald Eagles overhead a couple times. Mostly we see the Red Tailed Hawks and Kestrals. I had a Prairie Falcon dive bomb right over me trying to knock a pigeon out of the air. We see those 3 daily as well. The little gophers are a royal pain in the A$$. We really need a tiny gauge wire fence about a foot high and then buried a few inches extending out from the fence line about another foot in the shape of an "L" from the fence line. That way the gophers can not walk in or dig in. There are little poison pills the farmers use in this area to eradicate the gophers from their fields but I've never felt killing the entire colony was needed or the right thing to do. The hawks love them to pieces. If it weren't for the gophers ... the hawks might be fewer or be gone and maybe they'd be chasing our chickens.

Photo, Are there plants you've found that they don't like at all?

That would be a royal pain!

Wow Kestrels and Eagles too? Sounds like you live in Raptor Heaven except for the obvious worries that come with them.