Woodpecker II

12-12-10 SHORT HILLS: It’s warm again with almost 60° today, with rain, lots of rain, from the storm that snowed in the mid-west. The cold is due back next week.

I checked some of the blog’s stats. This is the 603rd post since 2-12-2006—two months short of five years. Page visits, counting the old Blogspot format and the current, are almost 75,000.

I seem to be in a woodpecker phase. After the downy woodpeckers were here, the male red-bellied woodpecker came by for some sunflower seeds. Looking at this guy, one wonders why he’s named what he’s named. There is a red-headed woodpecker already in possession of that name, but ‘red-bellied’?


Male Red-Bellied Woodpecker. The female is red only on the back of the neck. These birds are much bigger than the downy woodpeckers.

Symmetrical black and white back pattern.