Red-bellied Woodpecker
For the past couple weeks I've been enjoying the wildlife coming to my bird-feeder. I cleared out a bramble vine that was about 35 feet up into the cypress tree outside the kitchen window and hung a 4' long hook I made a couple years ago and a new bird-feeder. The squirrels can't get to it from the top but the birds leave them plenty on the ground. There's a couple of chipmunks too, doves, cardinals, tufted titmice, black-capped chickadees, and a whole lot of other species. I feed them black oil sunflower seeds and they are all over it. The most prominent of the group is a Red-bellied Woodpecker. He collects several seeds at once then takes them to the hardwoods across the street and stores them high up in a tree.
Steve nature has such a beautiful event of wildlife. This woodpecker is a very lovely species & how rare are doves to see in my part of the country. This is splendid!