Red Bellied Woodpecker

The Red Bellied Woodpecker and the Yellow Bellied Sapsucker share the same tree. I cannot seem to get good photos of the Sapsucker.
So I will settle for the Red Bellied Woodpecker.
She took one look at me, and off she went.
But those treats I smeared on the side of the tree were too much to resist.

She was back in a few minutes.
I now have suet, and I placed it on the other side of the tree so I can get her in the morning light next time, instead of in the shade of the tree.
She was on the wrong side of the tree for the time of day I was photographing her. Be sure and enlarge the last photo to see the food in her bill.

Red Bellied Woodpecker

A female Red Bellied Woodpecker.

As with the earlier post today (Cedar Waxwing), these photographs were taken at our house in Rockwood, Tennessee. The bird activity is more than I could have hoped for. I have already put out 2 feeders with plans to take more when I go back. I hope to draw the birds down a little bit. Right now they are staying high up in the trees, but very active.

Lynne, Rockwood may become my Hasty Brook.

Female Red Bellied Woodpecker at Lake Seminole Park

The female Red Bellied Woodpecker was right behind the male coming to this tree.The female did put on more of a show than the male did.
I only got a couple of photographs of the male, not as close to him either.
The female is eating out of the same opening in the tree as the male did.

Notice that tail.

I am sure the tail helps them balance on the side of the tree.

I photographed a Red Bellied Woodpecker earlier in the year in the park and had been looking for the woodpecker again. We almost missed them.

Male Red Bellied Woodpecker at Lake Seminole Park

We were in the car pulling out of Lake Seminole Park when my husband saw this male Red Bellied Woodpecker. Naturally stopped and grabbed the camera.

Downy Woodpecker

First he showed me the back of his head. Little did he know, I was glad to see that red spot.

Then he flitted one way, and then the other. These were taken at the Spring City Park.

Downy Woodpecker at Veterans Park

I heard a loud woodpecker off in the distance, was trying to locate it when I saw this one above me. He was almost making no noise at all as he went to work. Even as I photographed him I could barely hear him. I just snapped away while he worked at getting those bugs.

The one above is just a little blurred around his head, he was moving fast, as woodpeckers do, and I had my camera set on 1/160 of a second. A little slow for birding, but it did ok. I did change the setting and continued to photograph him.

And then he was gone!