bird ID – The Jersey Birder

How to tell downy and hairy woodpeckers apart

A downy woodpecker clings to a tube feeder while a hairy woodpecker hangs from a suet feeder a mere two feet away.

I wrote Sunday about the relatively rare appearance of a hairy woodpecker in our yard. But there’s more to the story! First off, after the male hairy woodpecker appeared in the morning, I looked out the window during lunch to find a female hairy woodpecker on the feeder. That gives me hope that a breedingContinue reading “How to tell downy and hairy woodpeckers apart”