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--Boundary_(ID_Z/89Sw3Ra3hxa9QT1DdJ1w) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Aug. 22, 2011 - This evening at the home of Brenda & Bill Thexton in east Wolfville along Main St., a juvenile downy woodpecker with a red cap (top of head) was going after de-shelled peanuts in one feeder, and the tray with millet seed attracted a juvenile n. cardinal, which has been seen often for at least the past half-week -- the young cardinal is very fully fledged and feathered out and probably independent now of its parents, with a blackish beak, and we think it is a young male on account of the extensive reddish colour showing on its breast and parts of its flanks and belly. Regarding the juvenile downy and hairy woodpeckers, the various field guides are confusing, but I think for both species that both male and female juveniles can have red or orange caps (but perhaps they are variable and not always present?). Sibley's field guide shows red caps on juveniles of both species, but the sex is not mentioned. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. --Boundary_(ID_Z/89Sw3Ra3hxa9QT1DdJ1w) Content-type: text/html; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Aug. 22, 2011 - <span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: 12px; ">This evening at = the home of Brenda & Bill Thexton in east Wolfville along Main St., = a</span><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: 12px; "><b> = juvenile downy woodpecker with a red cap</b></span><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: 12px; "> (top of head) = was going after de-shelled peanuts in one feeder, and the tray with = millet seed attracted a </span><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-size: 12px; "><b>juvenile n. cardinal</b></span><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: 12px; ">, which has been = seen often for at least the past half-week -- the young cardinal is very = fully fledged and feathered out and probably independent now of its = parents, with a blackish beak, and we think it is </span><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: 12px; "><b>a young male = on account of</b></span><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-size: 12px; "> the extensive reddish colour showing on its = breast and parts of its flanks and belly.</span><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: = normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; = "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Regarding the juvenile = downy and hairy woodpeckers</b>, the various field guides are confusing, = but I think for both species that both male and female juveniles can = have <b>red or orange caps</b> (but perhaps they are variable and not = always present?). Sibley's field guide shows red caps on juveniles = of both species, but the sex is not mentioned.</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica"><br></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">Cheers = from Jim in Wolfville.</font></div></body></html>= --Boundary_(ID_Z/89Sw3Ra3hxa9QT1DdJ1w)--
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