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Monday 6 August 2018

Old Friend? Red-bellied Woodpecker

While I can't be entirely sure, this bird looks like the same one that frequented my feeders about four years earlier. This species doesn't breed here as far as I know, so to have two similar looking females visiting seems like more than coincidence. I know I've had the same male Hairy Woodpecker here for at least the last four years so it doesn't seem out of the question.

She only stuck around for a couple of days in early May this time, not long before I took the feeders down. It was a happy stroke of luck that she arrived at the feeder just shortly after I had set up to take some photos.

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