Downy Woodpecker

2025

#10 of 11 in out my window this week is the Downey Woodpecker. They are a regular in our garden year round, staying in the neighbor's trees. We like them, as long as they behave. We are not too keen on them pecking at our house and roof and will try to do things to chase them away if they are messing with our stuff. I tell them, go do that to the trees and stay off the house! I love the polkadots on the wings, the strip on the head, and the bit of red on the neck. I imagine their pointy beak to be painful should it ever touch my skin, so I chase those thoughts away and merely enjoy their acrobats. February 2025

2021

 tried hard to capture the male with the red head and saw it many times, but every time I raised my camera lens, it would see the movement and leave. February 2021

2018

I had started a bird journal and this page was from the journal. It makes me laugh as it relates to the Hummingbird page. Go see. I wrote that the Downy Woodpecker at the hummingbird feeder was beautifully out of place on July 18, 2017.