Eurasian Collared Doves, Common Grackle, Brown Creeper, Northern Flicker, Downy Woodpeckers, European Starling, White-breasted Nuthatches - and not in this order.
Showing posts with label Downy Woodpecker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Downy Woodpecker. Show all posts
Monday, January 31, 2011
Monday, November 29, 2010
The Hairy and The Downy
The suet plug feeder hanging on my apple tree will go for days without any one showing any interest at all so it was nice to see a Hairy Woodpecker (Picoides villosus) pecking at the suet one afternoon.
Shortly after the Hairy got settled in for a good feed, a little female Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens) showed up. You can really notice the size difference in these two otherwise very similar birds.
She seemed quite ticked to find the Hairy around and kept edging closer on the branches
until she finally caused her bigger relative to fly off to a hanging seed feeder. Then, she followed it over there and flushed it out too. Little brat.
Shortly after the Hairy got settled in for a good feed, a little female Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens) showed up. You can really notice the size difference in these two otherwise very similar birds.
She seemed quite ticked to find the Hairy around and kept edging closer on the branches
until she finally caused her bigger relative to fly off to a hanging seed feeder. Then, she followed it over there and flushed it out too. Little brat.
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