October 25, 2003
Got one!
Nuking a breakfast for Mikey, I saw one of our "Three Blue Jay Musketeers" trying to get the last bit of bird-seed out of the feeder they seem most able to access. I go upstairs and grab my digital camera.
Of course, he's gone. However, patience won this time (although I did not go for the ice popsicle method this time, and took it from the kitchen window -- thus the fuzziness).
If you touch the picture to the left, you'll get a pop-up of a fuller scene.
Thanks to Mikey's "Beginner's Guide to Birds, Eastern Region" by Donald and Lillian Stokes, we did figure out our mystery bird from yesterday. It's a female downy woodpecker. (It could be a hairy woodpecker, but I don't think it's beak is big enough and it doesn't have a tuft of hair at the base of it. But, as you can see to the right, we don't have the greatest picture of it -- so I'm mostly going on the fact that the downy woodpecker is much more common.)
I know it's female because the male has a patch of red at the back of it's head.
Well, now to get to what I really should be working on this morning :-)