The bird gets an awesome house, the bird lover gets to watch a woodpecker raise a family up close, without the inconvenience of them defecating inside of the walls. I followed all of Walsh's ...

Pileated woodpecker: Over 16 inches long, with a 30-inch wingspan, a bird with a stop-in-your-tracks voice.Both sexes have red crests; the male adds a slash of red on its face, touching the bill ...

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 ...

Old nestholes are used by many other cavity-dwellers, including chickadees, titmice and house wrens. The downy woodpecker’s range stretches throughout the United States and Canada, from the ...

Before we bought our house in the early 2000s, a home inspector noted woodpecker damage on the wood-framed fireplace chase. He didn’t have to dig deep to discover this. Not only was a yellow … ...

There in the back our trusty little suet feeder attracts more winter-appropriate birds, assemblages of chickadees, nuthatches, titmice and diminutive downy woodpeckers. All of these birds are here ...

Unlike baby downy woodpeckers, for the first month or so, young towhees look a lot different than their parents. You would clearly know if an adult bird was feeding its mate or if it was feeding ...

Everybody loves chickadees. I do, too, that goes without saying. However, another bird of our winter woodlands comes a close second in my affections. It is the downy woodpecker. I ...

Observing birds at a feeder yields lots of lessons. ... brown-headed cowbird, Northern cardinal, song sparrow, downy woodpecker, house sparrow, white-breasted nuthatch, white-throated sparrow, ...

Every season is woodpecker season in North Carolina, so it’s not uncommon to hear a bird or two rappin’ on nearby trees or the outside of your house. Though the birds do the most damage ...

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 ...