Woodpecker at the feeder

[magoo]

Slightly off topic. Out the kitchen window. There is a Director Moore in a planter about 6 feet away. Close enough?

 Woodpecker at the feeder. The first and second photos are so close to being great shots.

[Zoe]

Very nice pictures.  We have been trying to get a picture of ours and they are gone before we can get to them.  The male looks like your pictures and the female is a plain version.  Ours are nesting in a tree that is hollow on top. The tree died after Hurricane Ike and left a top just right for the woodpeckers!  It seems you have a love of wild life and also love to garden.

Cindy

[magoo]

Thanks Cindy,

There was a pilated woodpecker in our pear tree the other day. Of course the camera was in side. We also had  Downey woodpecker at the suet feeder. Damn coons ended that until I hang the feeder where the coons can not reach it. Life is too short to not enjoy what is given.

[2vetts]

a red bellied . we have woodpeckers all the time . i was surprised by an oriole the other day . today there were two turkey vultures eating a fish on other side of pond . i think sometimes the vultures follow me as i jog because i'm bad enough at it that i appear terminal . i wish they were right . . .peace

[Julles]

2Vetts, you are funny!

Thanks for the pics, Magoo.  We have a woodpecker somewhere in the 'hood, whom I have never seen, but every morning he's banging away at a telephone pole near here.

[2vetts]

after ww2 when tv antennas were becoming popular woodpeckers would sit on them and 'peck' . it really made a racket and their favorite time to do it was 6:30 or 7 in the morning . not many antennas left in the cities any more .

[magoo]

Sunflower seed yesterday Pears today.