Tufted Titmouse standing on a suet feeder

The Tufted Titmouse rarely comes to the suet feeder. Today, he just used it as a perch.

Female Downy Woodpecker at Suet Feeder

Mike photographed a female downy woodpecker at the suet feeder this morning. If you look closely, you can see its tongue. The Hilton Pond website in South Carolina contains more info on the the amazing woodpecker tongue and pictures too (see below). Did you know that the woodpecker tongue is barbed and that the flicker's tongue is 5 inches long?

Please don't try this at home.

Downy Woodpecker Video

This woodpecker let me use the flash and didn't fly away. The pictures are high quality so you can click on them to see every feather. We probably have posted enough downy woodpecker pictures, so we've moved on to videos. See Downy Woodpecker Video (Quicktime)

Male Hairy Woodpecker

Will we ever get tired of taking pictures of the Hairy Woodpecker?

Two Downy Woodpeckers at the suet feeder

Hairy Woodpecker

Today was an interesting bird day. It rained really hard last night. Early this morning, there were quite a few fancy ducks in the lake. Mike spotted a female
Green Winged Teal but confused it for a female mallard. Next Chris spotted three female Hooded Mergansers and then Mike saw a male Green Winged Teal join the group. Chris then spotted four Wood Ducks. They must have taken refuge from the storm at Lake Nelson during the night. It was too grey to get any good photos so we just enjoyed the visitors.

Much later in the day, it cleared up and we got a good photo of a male Hairy Woodpecker at the suet feeder. For a while, it got warm enough for some turtles to come out and sun themselves on a tree that fell into the lake in a recent storm. The turtles jumped in the water when we got close, but they don't seem to mind sharing the log with the geese.

Downy Woodpecker

A female downy woodpecker advertising the "Birds Choice" suet feeder. If you want to attract woodpeckers, you should get a suet feeder with a tail prop. To complete the ad, we got ours at Wild Bird Country 1199 Amboy Avenue, Edison, NJ 08837-2552 Phone: (732) 549-5250. Say "hi" to Colleen while you are there.

Red Bellied Woodpecker

This woodpecker just made my day. While out in the yard stalking the Scaups, I was very close to the suet feeder. I recently put a new kind of suet in which claims to be catnip for woodpeckers. Well, this one seems to love it, and I love its expression which seems to be a smile conveying, "Thanks, Chris. I love it!"

Male Hairy Woodpecker at Suet Feeder

We are starting to select different settings on the camera to see what we get. This looks a lot clearer than a previous post of a Hairy at the suet feeder (at least in our opinion.)

Hairy Woodpecker at Suet Feeder

Nuthatch at Suet Feeder