Photography

This little one, has eye lashes

Hairy Woodpecker Busy Eating , while another bird in the background photobombs 🙂

ID tips from friends:
the clean white outer tail feathers distinguish Hairy from Downy, in most areas anyway.
Female Hairy Woodpecker. unbarred tail feathers, larger bill, and well developed comma eliminate a Downy
You can also see the size of the bird compared to each suet cake. It’s a hairy.

Taken with a Canon Rebel XSi 12.2 MP D-SLR Camera with a 75-300 canon lens

A bunch of compiled shots of the same woodpecker, Minnetonka MN October 2014

A Downy Woodpecker, Male

Click to see full size image, and see more detail of the bird, the sun light reflecting on his feathers, etc.

(the guy on the feeder might be another bird)
the image resolution/quality was lowered to reduce it’s size / web version

our bird

This little woodpecker is busy looking for food, zoomed in, getting closer trying to follow her/his moves.

October 5, 2014 Minnesota

This little gal is looking for food in this decomposing tree

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Hairy Woodpecker (female)

Photos not enhanced in any way, only cropped from the larger original

Next to Starring Lake, Eden Prairie MN :: April 12, 2010

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I like this bird, I don’t see it often enough.

Photo shot from 30 ft away

It is exciting to see a Red-Bellied Woodpecker, and these birds are smart and they simply look pleasant (happy), I think it’s their eyes and face that give me this impression.

You may wonder, why this bird is red-bellied while it clearly is red-headed?
The answer is simple, the belly is red, we just can’t see it.

I am 50-80 feet away from the bird here

I think this bird could have been named “zebra” (for the zebra-pattern black and white color on its back, wings and tail), red-crowned, or red-necked bird.

Red-bellied woodpeckers are relatively new to the North. Like northern cardinals, northern mockingbirds and tufted titmice, these birds are native to the Southeast. It’s only been in the late part of last century that they pioneered northward. Now these birds are found through the Upper Midwest and Northeast from the Great Plains east to New England.

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A Red-Bellied Woodpecker

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Looking for food

I think I see something I can eat

Yes, yum!

Maybe this tree has some more food?

What next??

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This is a Downy Woodpecker (male)

Fort Snelling State Park Birds, MN ::  March 14, 2010 (early spring)

Taken with a Canon Rebel XSi 12.2 MP D-SLR Camera

Find the difference between a Downy and a Hairy Woodpecker on this website