January 28, 2013
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Three Birds
In Three Minutes
I am always pleased when I go to the kitchen window and see a bird that I don’t see every day.
I see Downy woodpeckers fairly often, but not this one, its larger twin the Hairy woodpecker.
I walked away from the window to check the pictures I had taken and when I went back – a few seconds later – I thought my eyes were deceiving me.
I was surprised that a red-bellied woodpecker had so quickly taken its place.
I told our granddaughter Elizabeth about the two birds then went back to the window.
A new, more familiar bird, a dark-eyed junco, had taken the woodpecker’s place.
I took these eight pictures in just under three minutes.
Comments (15)
Wow — the birds really love that woodpecker feeder! What a wonderful variety!
Nice! A busy day at the feeder! I wonder if they had to take a number!
Impressive! I want to know what you’re using to attract such activity!
I went out yesterday and got a 50 pound bag of sunflower seed and some of those suet blocks. I hope to see some birds today (we had run out of feed a few days ago).
@slmret - @DanishDoll - It is so much fun seeing birds that don’t come to the feeders as often as the sparrows and finches.
You have a nice variety there. We have doves, and blue jays, wrens, robins, mockingbirds, and not much else
Nothing more exciting to me than seeing new birds come around. My heated birdbath has brought in a northern mockingbird and a yellow-rumped warbler this month ~ new ones for our yard. I’m not where I can get to my bird book, but haven’t heard of a snowy woodpecker ~ gonna have to google that one ~
@purpleamethyst76 - The peanut butter suet was attractive on this particular day.
@fwren - Snowy is not the word. It is a Downy.
I am not sure why I keep calling the Downy woodpecker a Snowy. 
wow that is good.
@Texasjillcarmel - That doesn’t happen very often – unless the birds are sparrows or finches.
we have barn sparrows here,too.
We have them nearby due to the farms in the neighborhood, but I rarely see them in our yard.
I’ve been looking at recipes to make some homemade suet, for fun and also since it gets eaten up so fast!
@BluebirdChris - Let me know when you find a good recipe.
Probably the same reason we say snowbird when the bird is actually a junco ~ habit ~