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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: surfinbird on September 12, 2006, 06:15:04 AM

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Post by: surfinbird on September 12, 2006, 06:15:04 AM

Hi There
I think that these may be Downey Woodpeckers but i'm not sure , can anyone help me out .
Thanks
surfinbird   (http://outdoorontario.net/Gallery/surfinbird/W00dpecker_25a)

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Post by: surfinbird on September 12, 2006, 06:18:23 AM

I don't think the link worked maybe this will.
http://outdoorontario.net/Gallery/surfi ... pecker_25a (http://outdoorontario.net/Gallery/surfinbird/W00dpecker_25a)[/url]

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Post by: Kin Lau on September 12, 2006, 08:54:05 AM

Actual url for the smaller pic is http://outdoorontario.net/Gallery/album ... .sized.jpg (http://outdoorontario.net/Gallery/albums/surfinbird/W00dpecker_25a.sized.jpg)

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Post by: surfinbird on September 12, 2006, 09:53:19 AM

Thanks for the help.

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Post by: Andrew Don on September 12, 2006, 12:48:47 PM

sure look like yellow-bellied sapsuckers to me, nice photo btw

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Post by: surfinbird on September 12, 2006, 02:10:29 PM

Thank You ,  my book is not the best for bird identification , I need to get a Sibleys . The sapsuckers don't seem to look anything like the pictures I took.
surfinbird

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Post by: Andrew Don on September 13, 2006, 08:24:27 AM

no problem :) the Sibley's is a very good guide, even the little pocket one.
How i got sapsucker is there is not enough white on the back ,downys and hairys have a big white patch on the back ,these woodpeckers don't. You have a juvenile with the brown head and a female with the red cap ,probably mother and kid :) ,where and when you take them? Have seen sapsuckers breed in the Long point area so are around but usually just see them the most during migration.

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Post by: surfinbird on September 13, 2006, 10:07:03 AM

Thanks for the help Andrew. I took several pictures of these birds at Gull Lake near Minden. I was  investigating some birds making funny noises and scared off  a Hawk , which I did not know was there . They must have been chirping at the Hawk and didn't seem to mind  me taking their pictures . I guess I'm the lesser of two evils .
surfinbird