Dancing Around the Four Sides

Hee -- I think suet blocks became commercially popular when the whole "birding" thing took off (no pun intended) as Something To Do (with all its specialized equipment -- bird books, super-zoom lenses, $2,000 binoculars). It was probably about the same time that Wild Bird Unlimited stores started going up everywhere.

We get lots of woodpeckers -- downies, hairies, red-bellies (whose most distinguishing feature is their red head), ladder-backs, flickers ... here's (http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/wild/birding/woodpeckers_pineywoods/) a nice site, although we don't have all of these birds in our area.