Downy Woodpeckers are year-round residents of our area, raising their families in summer as well as spending winters here. When the breeding season arrives, a pair selects a nest site in a dead branch ...

If you’re seeking a New Year’s resolution role model, consider the downy woodpecker. Legendary ornithologist John James Audubon had this to say: “The downy woodpecker .??.??. is perhaps not surpassed ...

The downy woodpecker is among the steadiest of winter birds. She's at the suet feeder every morning. I know the bird is a female because there's no red mark on the back of her head. Male downy ...

Do woodpeckers lay their eggs in the winter? We’ve been seeing a Downey Woodpecker going in and out of one of our birdhouses lately, but it seems too cold to be having babies right now. – Maggie, ...

Being able to tell a downy from a hairy woodpecker is one of those "rites of passage" for a birdwatcher. I suppose before that comes knowing that these two woodpeckers live around here and can be ...

Even though it is April now and spring is officially here, the windows on the back of our house look out over a field of snow that disappears into the woods and only begins to break up when it reaches ...

Although summer has only really just begun, it feels like “deep summer” has already arrived. We already have the heat and the humidity and the almost daily threats of thunderstorms, but if you go out ...

This log feeder is holding a high fat and protein hot pepper suet cylinder which offers nutrition that woodpeckers and other birds will seek out. In this video, it is attracting a male Downy ...

Woodpeckers are important members of the bird community, pounding out nesting holes later used by other cavity-nesting bird species. Tree cavities are hard to find. When the birds are attacking your ...

Now appearing at a bird feeder near you: the hairy woodpecker. It’s common, it’s cool, and it’s often misidentified because it looks so much like its smaller distant cousin, the downy woodpecker.

This, of course, is a quote from Yogi Berra, who for you younger folks was a catcher for the New York Yankees baseball team a thousand years ago. He was known for his skill as a ballplayer and for ...