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Red-bellied Woodpecker

I’m testing out some video footage in the blog.  This is a female red-bellied woodpecker going for a sunflower in nut mix in a copper mesh feeder.  Note how she uses both her beak and her tongue to get the food out.

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6 comments to Red-bellied Woodpecker

  • I love me a red-belly.

  • Awesome video. Our trio (Male, Female + new baby) are loving our mesh feeder and the sunflower mix inside. Love these birds!!

  • That’s so weird to have orioles eating out a sunflower mix. It’s not high on their food lists, they don’t have the best beak for it. The only time we get orioles at a seed feeder is when we have a cold snap and there are no insects out. Then they hit the suet and if that’s empty, maybe sunflower hearts.

  • Nice video—I wonder why she doesn’t just get the ones on the bottom?

  • so cute! i adore woodpeckers. out here we’ve had a ton of downys and acorns

  • Mary

    Was watching you from the banders’s table and wondering why you
    were so cautious in the hawks’outside mew. Now I know. Thanks
    for the informative explanations in this and all your blog reports.
    Keep up the great work you do.