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downy woodpecker (female)

Picoides pubescens

Description:

I saw this little fellow in front of the house up the trees. The active little Downy Woodpecker is a familiar sight at backyard feeders and in parks and woodlots, where it joins flocks of chickadees and nuthatches, barely outsizing them. An often acrobatic forager, this black-and-white woodpecker is at home on tiny branches or balancing on slender plant galls, sycamore seed balls, and suet feeders. Downies and their larger lookalike, the Hairy Woodpecker, are one of the first identification challenges that beginning bird watchers master.

2 Comments

SusanEllison
SusanEllison 12 years ago

thanks Laura....I figure it could be but now it is confirmed.

LauraMaria
LauraMaria 12 years ago

Oh too cute! It's a female downy woodpecker, I didn't realise how tiny they were! Nice shot, Susan! :D

SusanEllison
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SusanEllison

Houston, Texas, USA

Spotted on Nov 12, 2011
Submitted on Nov 12, 2011

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