Literally Grabbing a Bite to Eat - Woodpecker Bird
by Gaby Ethington
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Literally Grabbing a Bite to Eat - Woodpecker Bird
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Gaby Ethington
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Photograph - Photograph
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I joined the 365-day Journal challenge for 2022 and here is my ‘Day 50’.
February 19, 2022, Journal Entry:
We had a new visitor to our little seed dish on our deck rail. This beautiful Red-bellied Woodpecker came to grab some sunflowers out of the dish and threw the little seeds in the air. If you look above him to the left a bit you can see a tiny seed in the air. He just blasted through the dish to get the sunflower seeds. A back story of that dish is that my mom made it; she is legally blind and she joined pottery classes through her Senior Citizens center a couple years ago. She made some small things like this dish-bowl - I have several of the things she made and I use this one for a seed dish on our deck rail in the winter season. It is just a little spot so birds that miss out on the bird feeder in the trees can get a morsel or two over here.
Red-bellied woodpeckers (Melanerpes carolinus) are usually found in the southeast Unites States. The red belly is not often seen on these birds. They are omnivorous and eats insects, nuts, acorns, fruit and seeds. Sometimes they have been known to eat tree frogs, other bird eggs, sap and small fish. They are mostly found in forested areas. A fun fact is that they can stick their tongue out almost 2 inches past their beak. The oldest known Red-bellied woodpecker was identified in the wild by its foot band was a little over 12 years old.
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February 19th, 2022
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