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Pictures of my baby woodpecker

Last post 07-06-2008, 4:17 PM by StealthBunny. 5 replies.
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  •  06-26-2008, 2:56 PM 48739

    Pictures of my baby woodpecker

    Yes, the one I've been blathering about ;)  There are several around, but he is rather distinctive, because he still flies with a whole bunch of fluttering.  He seems to think it's fun.

     

     

    This is a picture of him with his daddy.  Daddy is the above left.  The baby looks bigger because he still has his baby fluffy feathers.  The picture was taken through a rain-splattered window with a flash, and that along with my poor photography skills makes for a rotten pic.  The next one is a little better:

     

    Again, daddy is to the left and baby is upper right.  This is my favorite picture of baby, because of the pose.  He poses like this a lot. I just love his body language!


    ...somewhere in a peaceful mountain range, a rabbit plots to take over the world....
  •  06-26-2008, 4:51 PM 48758 in reply to 48739

    Re: Pictures of my baby woodpecker

    Good to see the little one you have been telling us about!

    So cool.....


    * laughs like crow, soars like eagle with vision of hawk, haunts like loon & lulls like nuthatch ....tickle tickle, feather has most powerful medicine of all...makes you laugh *
  •  06-26-2008, 5:19 PM 48764 in reply to 48739

    Re: Pictures of my baby woodpecker

    Cool thanks for sharing the photos....  We had a Pileated Woody walking around my company entrace doorway yesterday...  Man these guys are big... (It was a first for me)   Of course, I hadn't brought my camera with me to work.... grrrr.
    Did they get you to trade, your hero's for ghosts?
  •  06-26-2008, 5:26 PM 48766 in reply to 48764

    Re: Pictures of my baby woodpecker

    I have 3 of them around here driving there Papa nuts they are funny to watch and i just love that little red cap the male has guess it has to slip down to the back of his neck to be an adult male
    Birds high above in the trees Serenade the flowers with their melodies
  •  06-29-2008, 12:05 AM 49382 in reply to 48739

    Re: Pictures of my baby woodpecker

    Here is one of my latest pics. I don't know what the sex of the juvenile is but its quite big. Sorry, the pic has been edited and is not a good quality pic.

  •  07-06-2008, 4:17 PM 50695 in reply to 49382

    Re: Pictures of my baby woodpecker

    The little guy ended up splatted face first against my window again this week, clinging to the window sash, wings straight out to either side, looking rather like a white bat. He looked in at me for a few seconds, then fell over backwards and backwinged, then swooped away.

     I swear, he's having fun doing that.

    All the other babies have guidence system control now.  He still doesn't. The maverick pilot and loving it?  All my other birds are just starting to come back, now that the kamikaze baby woodpeckers are growing up, but this one still swoops into somebird or someplant or somewindow on a regular basis.


    ...somewhere in a peaceful mountain range, a rabbit plots to take over the world....
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