Isn't he pretty??? What is he?
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Isn't he pretty??? What is he?
Hope this turns out...a photographer I am not. Took this outside my kitchen window. I know (think?) that he is some kind of woodpecker. He is really skittish when he sees me looking at him, doesn't stick around very long at a time.
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Thanks OED! Are hairy woodpeckers and downey woodpeckers the same? Cuz I have seen one or both of them too. Along with cardinals, doves, black capped chickadees, blue jays, house finches. I want some yellow finches tho. My Dad has some at his house, and the kids were just fascinated, so we got a thistle bag feeder, but have not seen any yet
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The Hairy and Downy are different. The Hairy is larger, with a bigger beak and more black on it's back. The Downy's wings have a stripped look because of the pattern of white spots. The males of both are the only ones with the red patch on the back of it's head. Even though the Hairy's beak is longer, the males of both have a longer beak than the females. You may have the Goldfinches (yellow) right now. The males loose the bright color in the winter.
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pic!
We had two of them in the yard yesterday. One of them came right up on the deck. Unfortunately, I didn't get a pic.
We had two of them in the yard yesterday. One of them came right up on the deck. Unfortunately, I didn't get a pic.
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Pretends (I like that name, kinda fits me too).
Nice picture of him. Yep, the male red bellied has red on his head all the way down to the beak. His lady friend will not have so much red.
You got the perfect angle to see how he got his name. It is not always so obvious.
Take a quick look at this site
http://birds.cornell.edu/BOW/REWO/
Nice picture of him. Yep, the male red bellied has red on his head all the way down to the beak. His lady friend will not have so much red.
You got the perfect angle to see how he got his name. It is not always so obvious.
Take a quick look at this site
http://birds.cornell.edu/BOW/REWO/
Thanks for the link, Pandora. I always wondered if I had identified them correctly because I never saw the red on their bellies. I also didn't know how the color differed on the female.
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