This past weekend I spied this Downy Woodpecker searching for food in a tree in the woods behind our house. In a closeup photo it is hard to know exactly where this bird is, and how high up in the tree it is. Check out the video below to watch him hunt and then to get the perspective I had when I first saw him.
Funny I posted a female hairy. So it must be woodpecker week. Boom & Gary of the Vermilon River.
These are fascinating creatures to watch.
That’s a great piece of video. It is such an active bird constantly hunting and pecking.
A lovely bird to see. Great video clip.
The small active Woodies can be very difficult to locate. You did exceptionally well with the video.
We have a female coming to our feeder this week such great birds to watch..thank you for your Post!
Great footage of a very sweet bird to have around. Mine has been MIA for weeks.
I love to watch these little guys. Great video showing Downy in action!
No woodpecks down here – so all pictures are a treat.
Thanks. Stewart M – Australia
As soon as I saw the name of your blog under the thumbnail on WBW, I knew you were from the Pacific Northwest. We lived in the Springfield-Eugene area for years before we started to RV fulltime and still go back to visit each year.
You have a lovely post (and blog) — thanks for the taste of “home”.
You bet- I assume you’ll return in the summer to miss the rain!
One has to admire the range of that zoom! It is rather amazing, even with a your trained eye that you spotted that woodpecker let alone held that super long shot so steady.
WBW
A bird would have to be finding a lot of food to maintain that kind of frenzied foraging.