![]() ![]() It's just stopped raining and I just checked - bent down with a flashlight near the ground I can just about peer under it and see him. The woodpecker went under the old miata folded soft top, and was kind poking around and nestling into some grass under there. (hrm) It's kind of mostly folded up old soft top (for a miata so it's small), and leaning against the house and the grill is in front of it, pretty much obscuring it from sight except for on the side. Where the grill is stored near the house, just behind it there's my husband's prior convertible top (which he replaced it with a new one on his car) that he's neglected to take to the junk yard yet. The woodpecker deliberately jumped off the top of the grill, and. Then we hear thunder, and there's some raindrops. My husband's lamenting that he won't be barbecuing chicken outdoors either way now. ![]() Well we're watching the woodpecker on top of the grill. When we got back, my husband was debating about whether to take out & use the outdoor grill or if it was going to storm soon.Īnd when we went to the back of the house, there was the woodpecker climbing up the canvas grill cover, and then bopping around on top of the grill! Then my husband & I went for a walk in the neighborhood for about a half hour. He was only falling from about 4 feet of course. He didn't make audible woodpecker sounds, but he was definitely pecking.Īnd honestly he wasn't flying on the way down when he hopped out of the trees, but he didn't seem to be in any pain or bothered much about having hit the ground. And it was on a tree he was climbing, but he didn't seem to be interested.īut I do think he's been eating because he has energy and I watched him poke around on the ground quite a bit, and I saw him poke at the tree bark. He then bopped over to another tree and started climbing that one.Īnd then I saw him jump, and it sure looked deliberate.Īnd, I have a suet feeder I'd offered him yesterday (Tuesday) and he didn't seem interested. and I was shutting off my camera & didn't see it, but my husband said it looked like he jumped deliberately. But he had no problem moving up & down & across the tree branches with his feet & tail. More like the one wing seemed to be getting in his way or something just a bit. Seemed to have no problem using his tail feathers. Not that I know what a bird in pain looks like. just sort of akimbo as he crawled around on the branches. I don't know that I've heard a downy woodpecker chirp before, so I really couldn't say whether it was distressed or not.Īt this point I noticed that his one wing was kind of dodgy. He did start chirping for a few seconds after we backed away. He was bopping along the branches of the tree less than 6ft off the ground.Īnd he didn't seem too particularly concerned with our presence frankly.īut we backed off when he didn't go anywhere. ![]() We have a couple of small trees and a couple of old lilac bushes that are kind of tree-like in our front yard. When I got home at 4:30pm (Wednesday), I checked the fir tree first thing of course! No sign of him.Ībout a half hour later, my husband found him in the front yard sitting on a branch of one of our small bush trees. I was kind of relieved because before this he didn't seem at all bothered by my presence, and it worried me that he wasn't afraid of me. When I got close he hopped on the tree & started climbing. I found him at the base of the fir tree poking around in the leaf & needle litter. And he was up there when it was getting dark. I figured if he was trying to climb the picnic table, maybe he'd be best off heading up a thick tree & away from neighborhood cats & prying eyes of predators! ![]() So we moved him over to some tall fir trees next to a shed. My husband said one of his wings looked not right. Then he hopped off the step and into the back yard. almost like it could've just been the colour of his feathers.įinally he woke up. He had what appeared to be blood on his white fluffy belly feathers. I got a second opinion, with a picture, and sure now he's a fledgling downy woodpecker. Plus he was rather small, even for a downy. and thought downy woodpecker - but he didn't look like a woodpecker. I could immediately see the black & white spot pattern and a bit of red right on top of his head. He was up on the first step of 2, curled and apparently sleeping with his head tucked in. Tuesday 4:30pm my husband arrived home to find a bird curled up on our back stoop step. Northeastern Pennsylvania, city of Scranton. ![]()
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