We decided that woodpeckers are very beautiful birds. The two kinds we see most frequently are Acorn woodpeckers and White-Headed woodpeckers and although they are mostly black and white, they are truly lovely to look at.
“The clown-faced Acorn Woodpecker is a common bird of western oak forests. It lives in extended family groups, and all members of the group spend hours and hours storing thousands of acorns in carefully tended holes in trees and telephone poles.”
This tree is at my dad’s house and it has about a zillion holes in it from woodpeckers. He is plagued with woodpeckers pecking on the side of his house.
I found this old nature journal entry made for our backyard woodpecker….makes me smile.
Here is our previous entry for black and white birds which included some woodpeckers: Outdoor Hour Challenge: Black and White Birds
Here is another black and white bird that we see and it always amazes me…the magpie.
What a great tail this bird has and he makes a funny noise when he walks along.
We have been keeping track of birds in our yard this week as part of this challenge.
Here is our list:
Western bluebirds
Goldfinches
Western scrub jays
House sparrows
Anna’s hummingbirds
Juncos (under the feeder)-just returned
White-crowned sparrows (under the feeder) -just returned
We heard a crow and a mockingbird as well.
We don’t have as much variety in our feeders or yard at this time of the year. The bird variety picks up as the winter marches on and by the time of the Great Backyard Bird Count, we are in full swing.
No woodpecker sightings this week but we enjoyed watching the birds we did have in our yard.
that little woodpecker is cute! i’m so glad you keep the old nature journals. how do you store them? just curious…
Our journals are all lined up on a shelf and we take them down periodically sort of like a scrapbook and enjoy the entries.
We use spiral bound notebooks and they have held up wonderfully.
Barb