When UD looks out her back
windows at her overgrown forest,
it’s all about birds. They’re everywhere.
Just now, UD saw a female red
cockaded woodpecker on top of
her garden fence.
When UD looks out her back
windows at her overgrown forest,
it’s all about birds. They’re everywhere.
Just now, UD saw a female red
cockaded woodpecker on top of
her garden fence.
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July 30th, 2009 at 4:26PM
May I suggest a Downy or a Hairy instead?
July 30th, 2009 at 4:43PM
You know, I DID hesitate to say cockaded — Problem with those other two is that they’re too small. Unless I’m mistaken, this bird was larger than a Downy or a Hairy….
July 30th, 2009 at 4:44PM
Thank goodness no one thought to name one Hairy Cockaded…
July 30th, 2009 at 5:20PM
Sphyrapicus is also a likely candidate. Check your local tree trunks for rows of holes — that means they have been around, although it doesn’t guarantee that’s what you saw.
July 30th, 2009 at 5:34PM
Possible, but I don’t think I saw any red at all. That’s why I went for the female cockaded; male has red on his head.
There’s a horizontal line of holes in my wooden garden fence …
July 30th, 2009 at 7:35PM
A Hairy is most likely what you saw. Size can be deceptive when there are no adjacent objects for comparison. If your garden fence has Sapsucker holes they must have really gotten carried away — those would be dry holes for sure.
No woodpeckers, but plenty of Waxwings and Chimney Swifts this evening along the banks of the Nashua, hawking the air above its rustling waters as they flow on to the Merrimack, and then out overnight into the North Atlantic.
July 30th, 2009 at 8:36PM
Hairy WAS my first guess, RJO. Then I thought the illustration showed it as smaller… But you may well be right — I didn’t get that long a time to study it, after all.
Your setting sounds very beautiful.