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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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
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.