Downy Woodpecker, male. (Picoides pubescens). All photos are 1500 x 996, click for full size.
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Downy Woodpecker, male. (Picoides pubescens). All photos are 1500 x 996, click for full size.
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Yeah, the rats-in-a-puppet wasn’t fooling anyone, but neither will feathers dipped in paint and glued on… Even the rat under all that feathers, paint, and
targlue seems to think this is getting very silly. Or else has an itch it can’t scratch…They were distracted today -- salad for breakfast!
Tomorrow’s daily “bird” is going to be a rat covered in salad?
Noooo, salad is all gone. Rats have fat bellies. Might have eaten a bird, too.
Ah, so instead of rat-inside-bird-puppet, it’ll be bird-inside-stuffed-rat.
Not a very big woodpecker (tikka in Finnish). Looks nice, though. Here the approximately similar looking woodpeckers are in the genus Dendrocopos.
I’ve heard that some (not sure which) woodpeckers here have taken to drumming metal lightpoles (used for lighting the cross-country running/skiing paths) in the spring and making a lot of noise, probably to attract mates.
Ice Swimmer:
That is a perfect name for a woodpecker. No, the Downys aren’t big. Hairy woodpeckers are identical to them, except for some spots on the tail feathers, and are more the standard size, around 9 inches.
Wow. That has to make an impressive racket. They’re pretty loud on wood as it is.