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rain_gryphon) wrote2018-12-12 03:35 am
rain_gryphon) wrote2018-12-12 03:35 am
Woodpecker-viewing Day!
We had two Woodpeckers at the cake feeder today!
Downy Woodpecker, or Hairy Woodpecker. I have trouble telling them apart.
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For whatever reason, Audubon named this the Red-Bellied Woodpecker. If you look really hard, you can see a tiny patch of rufous blush around the vent, and that's about it. I'm told that now and again, you can find one with a reddish belly, so presumably that was his type specimen. That, or he was fixated on the naughty bits that day.
When I was little, we didn't have these - they were a southern bird, and had been on the decline. They've been slowly spreading north since the middle of the last century, though, and becoming much more common.
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Alexandra enjoys watching the birds too!
Downy Woodpecker, or Hairy Woodpecker. I have trouble telling them apart.
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For whatever reason, Audubon named this the Red-Bellied Woodpecker. If you look really hard, you can see a tiny patch of rufous blush around the vent, and that's about it. I'm told that now and again, you can find one with a reddish belly, so presumably that was his type specimen. That, or he was fixated on the naughty bits that day.
When I was little, we didn't have these - they were a southern bird, and had been on the decline. They've been slowly spreading north since the middle of the last century, though, and becoming much more common.
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Alexandra enjoys watching the birds too!