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Red-Bellied Woodpecker (Male)
Melanerpes carolinus
33.7748, -84.2963
Field Notes
Description:
This is the male. You can tell because his red mow hawk goes from the back of his neck to just above the bridge of his beak. You'll see a little white separation between the red and the orange-red above the beak. Also, this one might actually be two...as the coloring around the eye is more orange in some of the shots.
Notes:
I hear two distinct thump-thump-thumps in my neighborhood. One is in my back yard in an old tree & I have made many posts of that home's progress. There are also some Red-bellies that fly across my street - away from the nest I know where it is. So there might be more than one pair visiting the suet feeders.
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PublishedJanuary 18, 2012
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