This week’s featured creature, the downy woodpecker, is a bird that is as common in suburban yards as it is in rural areas. Skip to main content. You have permission to ...

Our common feeder birds stacked up this way: American crow at the top, then common grackle, red-bellied woodpecker, European starling, blue jay, red-winged blackbird, mourning dove, hairy ...

A downy woodpecker is a small black and white bird that visits suet feeders. ... Near the Pacific coast, some birds are muddled-looking—their bright bellies have tan accents, ...

Feeding your birds at this time of year is simply joyful when you see the adults bring their fledglings to the feeders, as we see with the Downy Woodpeckers in this video. Here we have an adult ...

During a recent morning down at the edge of his meadow, nature columnist Bill Danielson was treated to a visit from a baby woodpecker that he can only describe as In July, the downy woodpecker is a ...

Even as the cold winds come down from the north, a few birds still remain in the Midland area, including the downy woodpecker. The downy woodpecker is the smallest of the northern woodpeckers ...