[Mnbird] No woodpeckers
Peter L Gilles
gilles_peter_l at msn.com
Wed Nov 10 18:06:08 CST 2021
Don,
Like Pamela, I haven't noticed a decline in woodpeckers. I have 3 Downey's, and 2 Hairy's that are regular visitors to both the suet cake and the other feeders. I have frequently heard the "ack-ack-ack" of a Red-Bellied in the trees off the North end of my lot.
Today he was on the suet cake twice that I saw. Last week, I had a female Pileated swinging on a tube feeder -- got some great photos of that. There have been two (female and immature) around on an off for the last two months.
I had a bonus Brown Creeper in the same tree with 2 Downy's this afternoon.
I have 5 Chickadees -- probably a family as regular guests along with 2 or 3 Nuthatches -- harder to tell how many I really have.
What I am missing are the usual dozen or so Cardinals -- male, female, and immature - that I normally have this time of year. After the breeding season is over, I normally have a very large number of Cardinals on my 3 hopper type feeders.
Off topic, I also have a very large number of Grey Squirrels (at least six distinct) and one true albino with pink / red eyes.
Pete Gilles,
Hadley Lake, Plymouth
Sent from Pete's Galaxy S21 Ultra
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From: DONALD GRUSSING Owner via Mnbird <mnbird at lists.mnbird.net>
Date: 11/10/21 4:08 PM (GMT-06:00)
To: mnbird <mnbird at lists.mnbird.net>
Subject: [Mnbird] No woodpeckers
I have had suet in my suet feeder on the trunk of an oak tree for three weeks. White breasted Nuthatches and Chickadees are frequent visitors as are Bluejays and Crows. I saw my first and only woodpecker today -- a female Pileated. Where are the Downy, Hairy and Red-Bellied woodpeckers? In over 60 years I have never experienced anything like this before. Well, one year I was knocked off schedule by some surgery, but even then, in deep of winter, the regular woodpeckers discovered suet in less than two weeks after it was presented.
Disease? Well-fed Cooper's hawks? Some effect of the drought I know nothing about? Something to worry about or no big deal?
Don Grussing
Minnetonka
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