Woodpecker Wednesday
I chased a Pileated Woodpecker in my backyard couple days ago, but the poor photo didn’t make the cut in the last of my winter woodpeckers faves, all photographed in my backyard.
This first woodpecker migrates to us for the winter from the upper U.S. and Canada. They’ll be departing very soon to head back home to breed.
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
The rest of these woodpeckers are year-round for me.
Downy Woodpecker (male)
Red-bellied Woodpecker (female)
Northern Flicker, Yellow-shafted (male)
Here’s the yellow!
Northern Flicker, Yellow-shafted (female)
Bay Photos by Donna 
What an amazing selection of wood peckers
Thank you, Sheree!
Oh my, your photo of the flying female is spectacular!
Thank you, Sam!
Your images are lovely of them all, but that Yellow-shafted No Flicker in flight is my favorite of this lot. We don’t see the Yellow-shafted as often as we do the Red-Shafted. What a treat you had and great reflexes with your camera to get such a great shot of the under wings!
Your backyard is for the birds! It’s a wonderful place for you both.
Thank you, Deborah! I’ve seen/photographed the Red-shafted which is quite gorgeous as well, I wish we had them also! Oh my goodness, I just love my backyard. I birded it this morning for little over an hour and saw 44 species. I was also trying to photograph birds & buds/blooms, oh yea!
44 species!! You are blessed to have such a wonderful place where there are so many birds be your home!
I try to limit birding at home to once a day in the early morning; even that is hard, ‘cuz I’ll be gardening or fooling around and see or hear a bird not so common and another mission begins. 😂🤪🤣
LOL! For me it would as well, the bed would not get made, and the dust bunnies could wait a bit longer for me. 😂
Today the bed got made, but the dust bunnies are still waiting, and now they’re multiplying 🤣
Lovely artistic designs the feathers make of the Northern Flicker, Yellow-shafted (male) and the bark of the tree! Beautiful.
Thank you! Seeing the yellow-shafted zip across the sky is really pretty, all that yellow glowing. Woodpeckers love a good ‘ole snag and they do composition well with bark!
Another lovely showcase Donna. I love the way the sapsucker blends in with the tree trunk it is on.
Thank you, Ashley! Those sapsuckers do camouflage quite well on the bark, I usually hear them before seeing them. 😊
All wonderful, of course! 😁
Thank you, Pepper! 😁
Flickers and Sapsuckers … well I hear Flickers and see them occasionally, the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker remains elusive to me. 🙂
Oh, those sapsuckers are definitely hard to spot, they camouflage so well, you’ll have to learn their ID calls; I hear them usually before I see them! 🙂
Aha – that is your trick. That is my trick with the Flicker. Several years ago I heard this “jungle-like sound” at the Park every morning and never knew what it was and mentioned it to another blogger (who is not a birder) and she said “oh, that’s a Flicker!”
I do like woodpeckers they are so much fun to watch though they move so fast that they aren’t the easiest to photography. (Suzanne)
Woodpeckers do move quickly, but I’m beginning to think I have some laid back ones, since they’reletting me get some shots, lol.
We are lucky enough to get the YBSaps here year round along with the rest of your nice collection. I’ve been busy admiring a pair of Pileateds that have been hanging around our woods….but yesterday I spotted their drilling prowess on one of the trees close the house – now less admiration ha.
What a lovely bunch! We see downy and hairy woodpeckers year round Pileated remain here in Ontario as well, I’ve yet to see one in winter though 😏