Tag: Downy Woodpecker
Weekend Birdies…
Our birdy feeders have been seemingly sparse lately, or so we thought but then we realized we have attracted bully birds to our porch. The crows have always been a welcome bird. For the most part they do not harm or disturb the other little birds. We began feeding them and then branched out to [...]
Posted: May 5th, 2009 under Backyard Feeder, Bird Feeder, Bird Feeders, Black Capped Chickadee, Carduelis pinus, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Chickadee, Dark-eyed Junco, Downy Woodpecker, English sparrow, Europe, European Starling, Feeding, Junco hyemalis, Passer domesticus, Picoides pubescens, Pine Siskin, Pine Siskin (Female), Poecile atricapillus, Poecile rufescens, Starling, Sturnus vulgaris, White-crowned sparrow, Zonotrichia leucophrys, backyard birding, feeders, house sparrow, pests.
Tags: backyard birds, Bird Feeder, bird pictures, Black Capped Chickadee, Carduelis pinus, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Dark-eyed Junco, Darkeyed Junco, Downy Woodpecker, European Starling, European Starlings, feeders, female duck, house sparrow, House sparrows, Junco hyemalis, male downy woodpecker, Passer domesticus, photographs, Picoides pubescens, pictures of the black-capped chickadee, pictures of the chestnut-backed chickadee, pictures of the downy woodpecker, pictures of the european starling, pictures of the house sparrow, pictures of the pine siskin, Poecile atricapillus, Poecile rufescens, Sturnus vulgaris, Zonotrichia leucophrys
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Downy Woodpecker
We have a previous post about the Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens), the most common woodpecker in North America, but we did not give a lot of information in it. Since then we have seen this woodpecker many times at our feeders and would love to share a bit more about them, including some excellent photographs [...]
Posted: March 30th, 2009 under Birds, Birds-Out-Back, Downy Woodpecker, Picoides pubescens, Suet Feeder, Yards, birdie, birdy, drumming, hairy woodpecker, insectivore, mating, parenting, suet, woodpecker.
Tags: Downy Woodpecker, Picoides pubescens
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Update to the Great Backyard Bird Count
I watched for an hour and a half and this was my official count: 5 House Finches (2 males, 3 females) 3 Dark-Eyed Juncos 2 Red-Breasted Nuthatches 2 Downy Woodpeckers (One male, one female) 5 Chestnut-backed Chickadees A dozen or more Black-Capped Chickadees 1 Stellar’s Jay 5 American Robins (1 male, 4 females) 3 dozen [...]
Posted: February 21st, 2009 under 12th Annual Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC), American Crow, American Robin, Black Capped Chickadee, Blackbird, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Dark-eyed Junco, Downy Woodpecker, Duck, Feeding, Finches, House Finch, Mallard, Robin, Song Sparrow, Spotted Towhee, Stellar Jay, Stellar's Jay, crow, songbird, sparrow, window, woodpecker.
Tags: american crows, American Robins, Black Capped Chickadee, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Chickadee, crows, Dark-eye Junco, Dark-eyed Junco, Darkeyed Junco, Downy Woodpecker, Finches, Great Backyard Bird Count, House Finches, Jay, mallards, robins, song sparrows, sparrows, Spotted Towhee, Stellar Jay, Stellar's Jay, woodpecker
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Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens)
We added an arm to the bird feeder on the back porch and then added a suet case. This has attracted a few new birds. We will try to get photographs of them sometime soon. However, one regular visitor now is the downy woodpecker. He hangs out for long periods of time, pecking away at [...]
Posted: February 12th, 2009 under Backyard Feeder, Bird Cam, Bird Feeder, Birds, Downy Woodpecker, Feeding, Picoides pubescens, Pileated Woodpecker, Redmond, Suet Feeder, Surburban, Washington, Washington State, Wetland Mitigation, birdie, birdy.
Tags: backyard birdfeeder, birdfeeder, Downy Woodpecker, feeders, Picoides pubescens, Pileated Woodpecker, porch birdfeeder, Redmond, Suburban, suet, The Wetland Mitigation in Redmond, Washington State, Washington State bird, woodpecker
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