Outdoor Ontario
Birding Reports => Backyard Birding => Topic started by: Raven11:11 on April 17, 2011, 01:46:55 AM
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Darn its late and I should. have researched their names ....
~ a very large woodpecker today, larger than usual (robin chased it way)
~ VERY small, almost 2 inch beak , light brown bird , super fast, docile, ate bugs from out houses wall on outside. black stripe on side. Warbler?
~ and a few other small ones, not Juncos*
I love it. We miss our doves, they got spooked after 2 were taken b y the hawk....
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The larger woodpecker could have been a Hairy.
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Small bird with long beak, Carolina Wren?
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official: VERY LARGE woodpecker couple.
The larger woodpecker could have been a Hairy.
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looks exactly like the wren however different colors, ours are more greyish + white ... lighter colors.
Small bird with long beak, Carolina Wren?
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Confirmed: white-breasted nuthatch - never been to our yard ever before this month.
Fast, small bird.
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If they are very large, then it could be Pileated. That is a very nice yard bird. I've had a Pileated visit our yard once.
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yo know, after looking at both, these are not the much larger pileated woodpecker, but are the regular, more common red headed ones that obviously are fully adult. Grown, mature.
the other behavior that threw us off was their direct competition with the 2 common Robins that have set up shop for the past 10years+ in our back yard & the field beyond, always pulling out mammoth worms , and not stopping all day, where in the world do they store these worms?? I have seen them leave a few in our bird water bath, but its not yet been erected.
the woodpeckers are now gorging on worms as it seems their primary food sources in the trees are not out yet....
have you seen wp's eat worms like this?
and also chase the robins from their usual eating grounds to the opposite end of the field altogether. but the robins dont give in easy, they are tough too, and matured, fully grown oldies that sneak back to the specific 100 square feet of grass where it looks like the best worms and bugs are.
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usually flickers eat worms and grubs from grass
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...... hmm ... upon some research; Northern Flickers spend lots of time on the ground, and when in trees they’re often perched upright on horizontal branches instead of leaning against their tails on a trunk.
These guys are woodpeckers.