This year, we are celebrating November with gratitude. It's also Nature Friday, where we get to meet new friends and maybe share a picture or two of what nature looks like around Blogville. Today we are thankful for front yard nature finds!
This week, during my regular house guarding and barking duties, I noticed a little spec of red in the yellow rose bush in the front yard....
...and then I saw him, Woody Woodpecker!
It seems half of our rose bush is dying off, and Woody was eating the buggies underneath the bark!
I watched him work and was amazed at how thorough we was!
Mama says he is a Ladder Backed Woodpecker, and he is pretty common in New Mexico. In fact, we have seen them at our backyard bird feeders AND at our hummingbird feeders (during the Summer months).
I know you'll be amazed, but Mama made a relaxing little video of Woody doing his woodpecker thing.
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Woodpeckers are cool, but they are pretty small and sure do peck a lot...I think bunnies might be tastier and more fun to chase, don't you??
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Hi Sunny,
ReplyDeleteLittle Woody Woodpecker is so smart with his fine markings and splendid red cap. We think you are right to leave him alone and focus on chasing the bunnies.
Toodle-oo!
Nobby.
Hari Om
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful video to open my Friday with! I'm with you, Sunny, I could watch this all day!!! Hugs and wags YAM-aunty xxx
yes they are super cool! and they are big berds... at least in the US... ours are a little smaller but super loud...
ReplyDeleteWe love the beautiful woodpeckers and we always hear them pecking away before we see them.
ReplyDeleteGreat shots of the woodpecker. We don't usually see them but we hear them pecking away. It can be quite loud when they are working.
ReplyDeleteThat was a great video of your woodpecker. We have lots of different types of woodpeckers in our yard and always like watching them do their work.
ReplyDeleteOMDs the Ladder Back Wood(y)Pecker is a new species to me THANK you for spying it out our window. He sure does have a very long beak for the size of his body. Sometimes on my EMW's I hear what sounds like a jack hammer. Then all of a sudden I see a Red bellied woody or a Flicker.
ReplyDeleteHugs and happy weekend
AC
You sure have some wonderful and fun viewing sweet one and that woodpecker sure is busy!
ReplyDeleteWhat a find. You are a fist rate bird watcher
ReplyDeleteJava Bean: "Ayyy, I have a Woody Woodpecker toy! I used to squeeze him and he would laugh and laugh and laugh! But these days he is just kind of quiet. Maybe I need to squeeze harder ..."
ReplyDeleteWe had a woodpecker which would peck on the wood burning stove pipe to make the bugs run out from under the flashing, and it would always start very early in the morning while my Sweetie was asleep and wake him and he'd be so angry! They are fascinating creatures, though.
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