Foraging Downy

Here is a male downy woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens) foraging on the side of a crepe myrtle tree. The woodpecker appears to have its eyes closed.

“The active little Downy Woodpecker is a familiar sight at backyard feeders and in parks and woodlots, where it joins flocks of chickadees and nuthatches, barely outsizing them. An often acrobatic forager, this black-and-white woodpecker is at home on tiny branches or balancing on slender plant galls, sycamore seed balls, and suet feeders. Downies and their larger lookalike, the Hairy Woodpecker, are one of the first identification challenges that beginning bird watchers master.” - allaboutbirds.org

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  • Brandon 🇨🇦 😷 5×💉@canada.masto.host
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    25 days ago

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    I think I saw a similar bird not long ago. It was pecking at a dead blackberry vine, then seemed to pull something away from the vine before moving on.

    I wish I had got a picture or two while it was pecking, but afterwards was all I got. I was too busy watching the tiny bird, literally right beside my car, which I had parked against the bushes.

    A picture of a small bird, possibly a woodpecker, perched on a branch, partially obscured by leaves above and below. The bird has its back turned to the camera.