What do you have in the feeder that they're going for? I thought they mostly just fed on bugs. We live a couple blocks from a 725 acre park that's mostly old growth forest, so occasionally they visit us but mostly I just see them in the park. Lol, the first time my partner encountered the pileated they thought it was a small turkey, those things are impressive.
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I think they are omnivorous and opportunistic! I buy those seed cylinders at Wild Birds Unlimited. I get the ones with hot pepper in them to keep the squirrels away. Cardinals, nuthatches, titmice, bluejays chickadees... Everyone loves them.
I'll have to check those out. I made a feeder out of scrap wood a couple years back but the squirrels rob it so much.
The cylinders are expensive, but they are compressed and even with the heavy traffic I get they last for a week. About the same time as a bag of seed dumped into the old feeder.