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Downy woodpecker

Picoides pubescens

Photo by KarenSaxton
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Field Notes

Description:

small woodpecker with rather dainty beak, which distinguishes it from the very similar Hairy woodpecker

Notes:

So rarely seen at my place that even backlit and hgh in a tree it was an exciting spotting

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PublishedAugust 3, 2016

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