red-bellied woodpecker

PORTRAITS OF A RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER

By Marilyn Armstrong on 03/08/2024 • ( 8 )

He doesn’t have a red belly. He has, as do most woodpeckers in this part of the world, a red head. Except there already exists an official “Red-headed Woodpecker” making the naming of every other woodpecker with a mostly or… Read More ›

By Marilyn Armstrong on 07/26/2023 • ( 5 )

We’ve been seeing a lot of woodpeckers. Red-bellied Woodpeckers, Flickers, Hairy and Downy woodpeckers. You’d think there would be plenty of bugs for them in the trees, but they want seeds too. I don’t know if the seeds are dessert… Read More ›

ONE, TWO, THREE – ALL THE SAME YET DIFFERENT

By Marilyn Armstrong on 08/03/2022 • ( 11 )

One-to-three Photo Processing Challenge I’ve been working on a batch of pictures I took yesterday and this morning of the birds and baby squirrels. So, I picked two good photos of a Red-Bellied Woodpecker and tried it in other formats…. Read More ›

WOODPECKERS ON THEIR TREE

By Marilyn Armstrong on 07/30/2022 • ( 4 )

I’ve been redoing some of these pictures using a tighter crop to show more bird and less tree. So if you’ve seen some of these before, yes, you have, but not this version.

ATTACK OF THE SPARROW

By Marilyn Armstrong on 07/18/2022 • ( 8 )

These pictures look like the little birds are being attacked by a hawk. Except those little birds look pretty calm. The attacking bird was a sparrow, the European model imported in the late 1800s. He was hoping to grab some… Read More ›

AT HOME WITH THE RED-BELLIED WOODPECKERS

By Marilyn Armstrong on 07/10/2022 • ( 4 )

They are as married as woodpeckers can be. These are our Red-Bellied Woodpeckers. They don’t have a red belly except in the most distant way, but there’s already a red-headed woodpecker, so they became red-bellied. They have a nest in… Read More ›

SKETCHBOOK 81: RED-BELLIED WOODPECKERS IN A TREE

By Marilyn Armstrong on 06/28/2022 • ( 11 )

I haven’t done anything in a couple of weeks, but it’s been a busy couple of weeks. Today, I settled down and drew the two “married” Red-Bellied Woodpeckers.

BREEDING WOODPECKERS

By Marilyn Armstrong on 06/26/2022 • ( 7 )

The dying tree in the backyard is full of birds and nests. Many doves live and nest in the tree. It should also be be no surprise that the dying tree (which has been dying for years) is the home… Read More ›

ASSORTED GOLDFINCH & A RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER

By Marilyn Armstrong on 05/29/2022 • ( 10 )

I haven’t been taking bird pictures because my orchids are in the way of my windows. I don’t have a lot of usable windows with which I can work and most of them are currently covered with orchids. So, until… Read More ›

A BIG DAY FOR THE BIRDS

By Marilyn Armstrong on 04/12/2022 • ( 7 )

I think there must be a lot of babies in nests — or eggs ready to become baby birds soon. The birds are not merely eating. They are tearing off pieces of suet and flying away with it. I assume… Read More ›

RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER

By Marilyn Armstrong on 07/25/2021 • ( 3 )

RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER

By Marilyn Armstrong on 06/15/2021 • ( 17 )

Among the many pictures I downloaded today were almost 300 pictures of a Red-bellied Woodpecker. They were clearly taken on different days. The light was entirely different and the woodpecker was in different places — at least three different locations.