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How about this right outside my kitchen window (Original Post) samplegirl Jun 2024 OP
WOW! Don't you just love all of our beautiful birds Diamond_Dog Jun 2024 #1
Yes! Craig fills both samplegirl Jun 2024 #9
Whatchoo got there? druidity33 Jun 2024 #2
Maybe Woodpeckers? Deuxcents Jun 2024 #3
Red-headed Woodpeckers - not to be confused with Red-bellied woodpeckers (which also have red heads lol). Probatim Jun 2024 #4
Red Headed Woodpeckers samplegirl Jun 2024 #10
They look very different from druidity33 Jun 2024 #23
I got raccoons, my ferals and a hawk being chased by 4 birds. 58Sunliner Jun 2024 #5
I am SO jealous! Dem2theMax Jun 2024 #6
Don't blame you samplegirl Jun 2024 #11
I'm okay with any snakes that cannot kill me. Dem2theMax Jun 2024 #15
Nice! 70sEraVet Jun 2024 #7
I had a huge pilated woodpecker samplegirl Jun 2024 #16
wow. ka dak ack. AllaN01Bear Jun 2024 #8
So pretty samplegirl Jun 2024 #13
Amazing! Hope22 Jun 2024 #12
I thought so. samplegirl Jun 2024 #17
Those woodpeckers are beautiful... Butterflylady Jun 2024 #14
Indeed! samplegirl Jun 2024 #18
The female samplegirl Jun 2024 #19
The plot thickens. Hope22 Jun 2024 #20
Red-bellied, Red Headed male female look alike. IA8IT Jun 2024 #24
Beautiful birds and excellent photography! Thank you for sharing with us. NBachers Jun 2024 #21
Welcome samplegirl Jun 2024 #25
How coooooool is that??? Thank you for sharing!!! niyad Jun 2024 #22
Welcome samplegirl Jun 2024 #26
Nice. I see very rarely woodpeckers (but not these, just regular not red woodpeckers) when we had a dead tree in the SWBTATTReg Jun 2024 #27

Diamond_Dog

(34,613 posts)
1. WOW! Don't you just love all of our beautiful birds
Fri Jun 7, 2024, 07:37 PM
Jun 2024

and other backyard critters! I so enjoy watching them at the feeders.

Probatim

(3,014 posts)
4. Red-headed Woodpeckers - not to be confused with Red-bellied woodpeckers (which also have red heads lol).
Fri Jun 7, 2024, 08:08 PM
Jun 2024

Those are nice neighbors to look at.

druidity33

(6,556 posts)
23. They look very different from
Sat Jun 8, 2024, 05:06 AM
Jun 2024

the woodpeckers i have seen here in MA. I regularly see the pileated and the downy woodpeckers... and i have once seen a yellow bellied sapsucker! Yours should be called red hooded woodpeckers...cuz they look like they got hoods on.



Dem2theMax

(10,274 posts)
6. I am SO jealous!
Fri Jun 7, 2024, 09:03 PM
Jun 2024

I live in an area of the country where there isn't enough water to have a lawn that looks like that.
Just seeing the color green makes me happy.

Then, add in the birds, who are so lucky to have those feeders waiting for them. Great photograph!

Can't have bird feeders where I live. Whatever the birds knock to the ground, the rabbits and squirrels show up to eat it. And then the rattlesnakes show up to eat the rabbits. Food chain in action. But I don't want the rattlesnakes, so I have to skip the bird feeders.

Dem2theMax

(10,274 posts)
15. I'm okay with any snakes that cannot kill me.
Fri Jun 7, 2024, 09:40 PM
Jun 2024

I will happily pick them up (non-venomous snakes,) and move them to an area where they won't get run over. But the rattlesnakes are not allowed anywhere near me!

70sEraVet

(4,142 posts)
7. Nice!
Fri Jun 7, 2024, 09:32 PM
Jun 2024

In mid TN, we get the red-bellied woodpeckers at our suet all the time. Fun watching the fledglings try to negotiate the suet feeder!
Once in a while, we'll see pilliated woodpeckers in the yard. But it's a rare occasion.
Great photo!

samplegirl

(12,065 posts)
13. So pretty
Fri Jun 7, 2024, 09:39 PM
Jun 2024

I took the a photograph the first time when just the one showed up and working on a watercolor.
I'll post when it's finished.

samplegirl

(12,065 posts)
17. I thought so.
Fri Jun 7, 2024, 09:43 PM
Jun 2024

What's strange is the one has been coming for about the last 10 days and then tonight a second one!

SWBTATTReg

(24,085 posts)
27. Nice. I see very rarely woodpeckers (but not these, just regular not red woodpeckers) when we had a dead tree in the
Sat Jun 8, 2024, 06:10 PM
Jun 2024

yard across from our back yard (located behind us in the alley). I've always enjoyed hearing their Tap, Tap, Tap, etc. trying to get at the insects. Such a neat sound that I miss now that I don't go to the Country anymore when my parents lived in the Ozarks.

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