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Downy woodpecker

London Canada, The Forest city, gives the Photographer many opportunities to capture birds of all Varieties. The active little Downy Woodpecker is a familiar s...
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London Canada, The Forest city, gives the Photographer many opportunities to capture birds of all Varieties. The active little Downy Woodpecker is a familiar sight at backyard feeders and in parks and woodlots, where it joins flocks of chickadees and nuthatches, barely out-sizing them. An often acrobatic forager, this black-and-white woodpecker is at home on tiny branches or balancing on slender plant galls, sycamore seed balls, and suet feeders. Downies and their larger lookalike, the Hairy Woodpecker, are one of the first identification challenges that beginning bird watchers master.
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