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Little guys keep skittering before me. Woodpeckers? (Original Post)
elleng
Jan 2022
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in my family we call them " headknockers " apt discription no? great snaps .
AllaN01Bear
Jan 2022
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Dave in VA
(2,037 posts)1. If I was to venture a guess
I would say they are Hariy woodpeckers. Here is a link:
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Hairy_Woodpecker/id
ShazamIam
(2,570 posts)2. Looks like yellow or red shafted flicker?
2naSalit
(86,534 posts)4. That's what I think too.
The little black slash next to the beak is what made me think that.
Walleye
(31,008 posts)5. I was going to say sapsucker but I think flicker may be right.They eat ants
If there is a line of holes in circling the trunk youve got your yellow-bellied sapsucker
AllaN01Bear
(18,150 posts)6. in my family we call them " headknockers " apt discription no? great snaps .
Nay
(12,051 posts)7. The top bird on the right is a red-bellied woodpecker. I believe the bottom bird
is a flicker -- because of the black stripe on its cheek, but I don't see the usual black bib on its chest. Thus it may be a juvenile.