[NatureNS] Woodpeckers - feeding observation -

Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:17:08 -0300
From: Andrew Stadnyk <Andrew.Stadnyk@Dal.Ca>
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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
>>
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