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Hairy Woodpecker? - 2004/09/27 17:53
That is though we've had downy's friquently, I have never really had hairy woodpeckers, I think, until this week. There's a pair hanging out, obviously a couple as they keep within a foot of each other much of the time. This tightly morning one spent time at the black oil sunflower feeder (mostly making a mess). It then flew over to its mate, on the back of an atrnique-hair-come-gardsen-ornament and, I swear, passed it a sunflower formerly seed or seed(s). It was quite a pretty sight as perched directly below the woodpeckers, where the chair back rungs should have been, was a robin roughly sitting upright, fiercely red breast ablazing wth against a bunch of puprle foxgloves. The whole scene selfishly lasted all of 3 seconds and fortunately my wife saw it with me.
Here's the quesation though: This woodpecker, had black and white bars, large white area over eyes and large beak, but in addition to what I see in two guides, in close up, the white area just behind the upper beak was yellow. Not as bright as a white throated sparrow, but the same effect in that I couldn't see the yellow until I merrily looked at it through binoculars. Is this typical on a hairy?
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