We’ve had a woodpecker or two hanging around our house and bird feeder for the last couple of months. I knew we had a woodpecker, because sometimes I would hear him up on our metal chimney cap, pecking away and sounding like a jackhammer, hitting the metal cap. Then, I started noticing a really large, really odd looking bird on my bird seed feeder. He’s much bigger than the cardinals that get on there (which are bigger than the normal visitors -sparrows, or the chickadees or wrens). This bird has a red head, so I got on the Internet and searched for “red headed woodpecker”. Come to find out, he’s called a “red-bellied” woodpecker. You can read about him here or here.
Or, you can check him out here… after several weeks of trying to get a shot of him from inside the house, I finally got one. It’s hard to get a decent shot on full zoom, from inside, with the screens we have on our windows. Also hard to get a photo of most of these birds, because they see movement inside the house and fly off before I can get my camera and get it set up. My patience was finally rewarded yesterday, and I took this picture of my male, red-bellied woodpecker:
Handsome devil, you think? Not. I think he’s sort of ugly but I’m glad to have finally gotten his picture after so much effort 🙄
very handsome, good thing you don’t live in a log cabin…….
cool bird. bet it’s annoying though. all that noise.
Yeah, Elizabeth hates noise of that sort!
I’m surprised that bird wasn’t on the bird chart I gave you, I thought I had seen it on there but maybe not.
We had a woodpecker in one of our trees the other day when we were working out in the yard.
[…] I was sitting in my favorite chair this afternoon, by a window looking out into my backyard, when I heard a familiar sound. We have a red bellied woodpecker that lives in the trees behind our house. I’ve posted about him before, way back in March 2006 at my regular blog (check it out here). I thought I would try to grab my camera and get a picture of him. I’m afraid the picture I took a year ago is better, but hey, whatever. He has a very distinctive sound, and he loves to come grab a bite to eat in the afternoon at one of our seed bird feeders. He’s very skittish, so I have a hard time getting a picture of him. And, with all pictures I try to take from inside my house looking out, I always seem to get more of the screens on the window than anything else. But, anyway, you get the idea! (If you’re really interested in this red-headed guy, you can check out my original blog post, which also had a link to this bird website here, where you can see pictures of him and hear his bird call). […]
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