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10 Fun Facts About Hairy Woodpeckers
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Are you going to make videos about the red bellied and piliated woodpeckers?
It’s been a while since I watched one of your videos. Your photos and videography have gotten really good! Both the technical quality and the composition. I’ve always liked the fact that the information you share is well-researched. Well done.
In all the years I’ve watched hairy & downy woodpeckers, I’ve never seen one on or even close to the ground.
That oldest female hairy found in Brookings, SD was interesting. We have hairies here, 44 miles north of Brookings, but the downies take the prize for the most woodpecker visits to our peanut feeder and suet feeders. It’s the flickers who win for sheer abundance, but we only see them twice each year for about a week.
Another fun fact is that the male chicks don’t have a red nape but a little red cap near the front of their head, which disappears as they mature. I’ve had Hairy Woodpeckers visiting my suet feeders for over 14 years now 12 months per year, along with Northern Flickers, Chickadees and Nuthatches. I love my little tree clingers.
How do you get blue jays to figure out peanuts are food? I left some out where they eat and they haven't touched them.
In this video you mentioned feeding meal worms to the hairy woodpecker. Will they eat dead ones? My local bird seed store has a suet block with meal worms in it. Meal worms give me the heebie-jeebies so I haven't bought them before. However, I am trying to offer a more diverse food source for the birds here in central MN and am wondering if I need to get over my issue with these meal worms. Lol
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HOW DO YOU FEED WOODPECKERS
Lesley…as usual, nice job!
I had to watch again, never knew there was a difference, thanks
Thank you once again for an amazingly interesting and well produced video. Learning a lot from this channel on American birds. Very different to African birds.
I love your channel .. I had both hairy and downy but They’ve cut down so much of the trees to put in all the subdivisions out here in the country that we have red shouldered , and red tail , Cooperhawk’s and Falcons .. I got so tired of cleaning up the feathers out of the yard ..I told my husband that we must stop feeding the birds.?
Thank you Lesley ?❤️
I hope you can do a Pileated Woodpecker video…where I am they are super hard to get footage of…cause of my cabin being remote and they aren't used to humans…but in areas of Ontario they act totally different and seem to be a lot less skiddish my dad noticed when he went to Thunder Bay a few years back…he always said they looked like Pterodactyls :/
Lesley, I have a pair of Hairy Woodpeckers that visit the suit cakes I leave out. I was surprised and delighted when one of them landed on the cake when I was two feet away and head level with the bird. It seemed totally tame and unafraid. Is this normal pecker wood behaviour? I live on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. You must be Canadian, eh?
I have so many woodpeckers at my forest home. Thanks for the great information on them all. I feed them peanut and sunflower suet all winter, they also visit my bird feeders with other songbirds.
Eeks! I missed the Downy video! I'll go back. I have both these woodpeckers around, but I see the Downy woodpeckers a lot more often. Good video!
a downy woodpecker 1 time was peking into my hummingbird feeder
how do you have the birds like you and stand on your hand
We are lucky enough to have both Hairy and Downy Woodpeckers, but I have noticed a decline in our Hairy Woodpecker visitors.
I've got a video I took through our dining room window that faces the staircase to our deck. A very small juvenile was on the wooden railing and I watched it for a while. Then it got excited and was chirping as an adult woody landed and looked like it gave him a black oil sunflower seed from the nearby feeder. It then comically walked backwards down the railing and stopped on the edge where it proceeded to put the seed in a crack between the post and railing. It then chipped away at it. When done, it walked up the railing a bit and the adult showed up again and landed on the railing. It then took off and the juvenile waited a few seconds and also flew away towards the adult. I love these little guys. I put suet out all winter for all the birds but especially the woodies.
I once saw a downy woodpecker on my house apple tree??❤️?
We like to watch hairy, downy, and red-bellied woodpeckers at our suet feeder. We see pileated woodpeckers in the woods but they don't come to our rural Massachusetts feeder. Maybe if it's a very hungry winter? I'm new to having bird feeders, putting them up for the first time last month. I find 'Lesley the bird nerd' very helpful and enjoyable. Thank you.
Some are snow birds
Such fascinating little beasties.
Your footage is so beautiful and your very informative. This is the first year that I have seen the Hairy Woodpecker at my feeders. I get the downys all the time.
Thanks for sharing ?
Awesome. Saw 2 Hairies and a downy all foraging together in some poplars a month or so ago.