And Pine Siskins and crows
whole field is full
Blooming unusually early this year. Ottawa Bluffs Preserve (The Nature Conservancy).
Downy Woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens) hunting in Phragmites stems, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NYC, March 2024
Private property accessed with permission. No public access to this area. Record also entered in eBird: https://ebird.org/checklist/S163619398
Private property accessed with permission. No public access to this area.
A pair, seemingly, variously perched in a dead tree, valuting into the air hawking for insects (note bill contents in a couple of images), and occasionally returning to a nest cavity. Vocalizations were intense during the entire performance.
Note that one bird still has black spots or bars on the secondaries, in spite of having a red head.
maybe bent over by the '98 ice storm