the black-rumped flameback Dinopium benghalense is the most common woodpecker we see in our garden, as here on a coconut tree. typicallly they will climb up t

.Nothern Flickers are native to most of North America, parts of Central America, Cuba, and the Cayman Islands. Flickers are one of the Woodpeckers who are frequent visitors to my feeders here in Wisconsin

A lone bird sitting on the roof of a house brought some fond memories back to me. In our last home, we had a bird feeder right outside our bedroom window. On the file cabinet near the window, we kept a

Each week @nelinoeva hosts a themed contest in the Feathered Friends Community. There are some great prizes. This week's theme is SMALL BIRDS. You can see the contest rules here My post is not a contest

How many times have we been caught without our camera when we see something out of the ordinary in the bird world? Well, not this time. Here is a sight I haven't seen too often, one bird feeding another,

Good evening Hivers friends. Today drawing some small birds in their nest, they are woodpecker chicks, which I shaped with a 2B pencil to then apply colors and thus simulate their features and short plumage

Pileated Woodpecker seen from below with its crest in odd views.

When I read this week's #SMap topic, @nelinoeva stated, Oh, how I wish to have their sight." Since we're wishing, Oh, how I wish to have this Red-Bellied Woodecker's hair. Look at that mop he's sporting.

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Hi fellow Nature Enthusiasts, Today we saw the damage to one of the giant pine trees at the lake house by a wood pecker or two! Searching for Meals Wood peckers aren’t too common around where we live but

Woodpeckers: Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker, Red-Bellied and Downy Woodpeckers

Two varieties of Woodpeckers

This tree needs to be removed. This is what happens when the bugs and wood peckers attack a tree.

“In durаtiоn, vаriеty аnd соmplеxity, nо оthеr vосаlisаtiоns prоduсеd by аny оthеr аnimаl саn mаtсh thе sоng оf а bird,” sаys Dаvid Аttеnbоrоugh in his bооk Thе Lifе оf Birds. Birdsоngs оriginаtе nоt in

In a recent post on my blog, I discussed some of the challenges facing the National Football League (NFL) in the United States (though that was one heck of a great Superbowl game!). One of these challenges

Near them there is a group of pestering birds and it includes peculates, Wryneck and Sapsuckers. This woodpecker is part of Picidae's family. These birds have gone on earth 25 million years ago. (Source

These stumps sit in one of my brothers gardens and a Pileated Woodpecker has been feasting on the creatures living in the dead wood. They are such a beautiful bird and you can hear their loud pounding

Woodpeckers are small to medium-sized birds with chisel-like beaks, short legs, stiff tails and long tongues used for capturing insects. Some species have feet with two toes pointing forward and two backward,

It has been found that the valvular (melanrops formicirus) is not your usual challenges. Photographer Mark Hetherington, who wrote this picture in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon, writes: I saw these two

This morning I saw a woodpecker. He tapped on the tree and listened attentively. He was enthusiastic and I took a little picture of him. See my photos. Thanks for watching and your attention.