Re: [Maine-birds] Red-bellied Woodpeckers

Louise,

thanks for the hint about Brown creepers mooching off the Red-bellied's suet stores!

I'll keep my eye out for that dynamic :)

Cathie Murray

Hallowell

On Tuesday, March 7, 2023 at 4:14:58 PM UTC-5 Louise Barteau wrote:

Have had a lone female red-bellied at my feeder station all winter. Saw it last night. Keep checking on it! Wanted it to be a pair but it is one female that I assume is the same bird all winter. When I saw it last night it was accompanied on the nearby tree with a Brown Creeper who has learned that the woodpeckers frequently stuff bits of suet in the bark for later. Once I learned that I now see the Brown Creeper almost every day.

Louise

Lubec

On Mar 7, 2023, at 9:04 AM, LNO/MWA <ma...@maine.edu> wrote:

This is the first winter (in the past 40) we have seen these in Holden.  The same pair (?) has been here off and on all winter.

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