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Index of Subjects I had a young downy in my front yard and the male was (frantically) feeding it, with no sign of the female. Maybe it is a behaviour more generalizable to these woodpeckers? Andy Stadnyk Lower Sackville Quoting Richard Stern <sternrichard@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > Very nice action shot! Looks to me like the male has the food, and the > female wants it. Could be an adult male about to feed a young female. > > Richard > > On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Ian McKay <ian@amimckay.com> wrote: > >> My wife Ami noticed a pair of HAIRY WOODPECKERS being very vocal and >> chasing eachother up and down a power pole. Later, the male started eating >> out of a mostly empty feeder while the female hopped around inside our >> crabapple tree. We noticed that she would visit the male and they would >> exchange food. It looked like she was feeding him [insects from the tree?] I >> managed to capture one of these exchanges. >> >> http://www.amimckay.com/graphics/hairywoodpeckers-lunch1.jpg >> >> Could she be his mother? Is this common in mated pairs? Many questions. >> >> Ian McKay >> Scots Bay >> >> >> >> >> >> No virus found in this outgoing message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 9.0.830 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2987 - Release Date: 07/07/10 >> 03:36:00 >> >> > > > -- > ################# > Richard Stern, > 317 Middle Dyke Rd. > Port Williams, NS, Canada > B0P 1T0 > > sternrichard@gmail.com > ################### >
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