Woodpeckers

My Buddy

This lil guy lives in my yard year round and has raised a lot of babies here. He is very used to me. Every time I am out putting bird seed in the feeders or changing out water in the bird bath, he always shows up and either goes to this suet basket right by a feeder I'm working on, or climbs up and down the crepe myrtle trunks near me. If the suet is gone he makes the fussing noise of a high pitched beep. Other times he make a different downy sound that announces he is there. He will eat suet with me about 2 feet away.
Male Downy Woodpecker (picoides pubescens)

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