This is the female version of the red-bellied woodpecker. The male has red all the way to and including its crown. The female does not have red on the crown. It looks like it has a bald head.
Female Red-Bellied Woodpecker
These pictures were taken last weekend in a wetlands area in a different county that I found the male.
Female Red-Bellied Woodpecker
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Have a great weekend! If you have good weather catch some rays and get some Vitamin D.
The Downy Woodpecker was another bird I saw in a park on the Hudson River in New York. New York is in the year round range of this bird, as is most of the U.S.
Downy Woodpecker in November
The park is mostly woods. However, these shots are at the edge of the woods close to an open area. They usually stick to woods, but can be found in parks and they say at your bird feeder. When I was allowed to feed birds, I would see them in the woods behind my apartment, but not at the feeder.
Downy Woodpecker in November
This Downy Woodpecker is a male as males have the red patch on the back of their head.
Downy Woodpecker in November
Have a great rest of your week! Enjoy the great outdoors!
I see and hear various woodpeckers in my area. There is only one kind I have been able to catch the babies peaking out of the tree hole of the nesting tree. It is the Downy woodpecker.
Downy Woodpecker Family – Baby
I usually can at least find the tree the babies are in because I heard them making sounds begging for food. It does not always mean you will be able to catch sight of the hole. Sometimes by the time you hear the babies start making the sounds, the hole may be well camouflaged by leaves.
Downy Woodpecker Family – Dad
The parents are usually fairly close by pecking at trees for bugs. Sometimes they even look for food on the nest tree.
Downy Woodpecker Family – mom
I have no idea what kind of food they caught in either of these pictures. Our woods is full of bugs due to all the rain we have experienced the past year, so they won’t go hungry.
Downy Woodpecker Family – Mom feeding baby
I believe the babies have fledged from this particular tree, but I know of at least three other trees in the same woods where the Downy babies were still in the hole. This pictures were before sunset, taken from a distance, and heavily cropped.
If you go to All About Birds the babies sound kind of like this in the woods when they are in the tree, but soon to fledge. I usually start hearing them right before they fledge.
I heard a big chunks falling off a tree to the ground. It was a pileated woodpecker destroying a tree. He was in search of bugs to eat and was tearing chunks of bark off the tree.
They may be starting to nest. There is a lot more activity in the woods. Get out and enjoy a walk in the woods. Unplug from your devices and enjoy nature’s sounds. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Been staking out this tree along with many others in the woods since last year. Today it paid off. I finally saw a head stick out several times and a parent come by and feed it. It appears to be a female downie woodpecker feeding its young.
It was a dark, cloudy day and this was in a dark area of the woods. It was not a great day for camera settings. Could not avoid having graininess in this shot with the widest opening an F10 and a very high ISO. Here’s hoping I can do this again with better lighting conditions in the next week before these little ones fledge. Have a great rest of your weekend!
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