A downy woodpecker, perched on a rail post and resting on a railing while facing left, uses a crack in the wood to hold a sunflower seed as it cracks it open with its beak.
Happy #WoodpeckerWednesday as this downy celebrates by cracking open a sunflower seed on the deck. #birds #woodpeckers #backyardbirds #birdphotography #nature #ECK 🪶
Fabulous photo, Charlie!🤩 #WoodpeckerWednesday
I did see an intergrade one, once, and would love to see a yellow-shafted one in real life!☺️
an obscured red belled woodpecker perched on a knot in a tree covered in lichen and moss.
woodpeckers are too busy for photographs
#WoodpeckerWednesday #birds
A creamy tan bird with a light gray cap and nape, a bright red patch on the nape, a black mustache and bib, black polka dots on his chest and belly and yellow shafts visible on the underside of his tail feathers proudly stands on a fallen log facing the camera with his head turned to the left and slightly lifted against a blurred deep green grassy background with a couple of yellow flowers dotting it.
It's the time of year to start showing off.
Northern Flicker
#WoodpeckerWednesday #ColorADay #RedWed #ECK #birds #nature #wildlife #photography
Male (left) and female (right) Downy Woodpeckers at a suet feeder on a fence.
Happy #WoodpeckerWednesday!
These male and female Downy Woodpeckers were at the suet feeder getting dinner before the Starlings came back for seconds. #birds
Photo of a Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) perched on a branch, holding a peanut in her beak. This bird is mostly black and white in colouration - white underside, black back and tail, wings mostly black but each with a wide white bar and lots of white spots, heads mostly white with black markings (black crown, and a black stripe surrounding the cheek). The vent (the underside of the rump) however is red. There is no red patch on the back of the head of this one, which means she is a female. Her body is facing away from us and turned slightly to the right, with her head turned to face directly to the right, so we see the full extent of her longish grey Woodpecker beak.
#BlackHeads – any bird with black (not pimples!) on their head –is the theme for #BirdOfTheDay today. Both of the previous 2 posts in this thread qualify but as it is #WoodpeckerWednesday here is a Great Spotted Woodpecker photographed in mid-Wales in 2024. #Birds #BirdPhotography #UKWildlife #EKC 🌿
A northern flicker (Colaptes auratus) perched on a branch facing the right of frame while being poorly lit tbh. We can see their spotted chest and folded wings on their right side.
#woodpeckerwednesday
Northern #flicker - Colaptes auratus
(Shot near Cincinnati 4-2-26) 🐦🪶 #photography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #animal #nature #bird #woodpecker
A very pretty woodpecker with a red head, white belly and black and white speckled wings.
A Red-bellied Woodpecker pausing before chowing down at the suet feeder
#birds #WoodpeckerWednesday 🌿
Happy #WoodpeckerWednesday! Just saw a great spotted woodpecker in a tree, and as I only have my phone camera I'm not bothering with a picture.
As close as I've ever been to a female Hairy Woodpecker, captured in sunny profile.
Since it's #WoodpeckerWednesday, I contend that Hairy Woodpeckers have #blackheads...
...with white racing stripes! 🤘😁 #BirdOfTheDay
🙏Thx for sharing your birbs this week! 🪶🌿
📸 Leuconotopicus villosus, formerly classified as Picoides villosus or Dryobates villosus. Jfc.
#Woodpeckers
#Photography
Center right of frame, perched vertically against a tree is a male Hairy Woodpecker, as they search for any ants or other yummy bugs hidden under the bark of the tree.
Happy #WoodpeckerWednesday friends... My buddy Hairy would like to welcome you which, coincidentally, also coincides with the #Blackhead #Birdoftheday motif. How fun! #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography #eastcoastkin
A black Woodpecker with a flaming red crest, clings to the side of a rough barked tree. The bird's feathers on the neck & breast are wet & clumped together. The neck looks scrawny.
#Birds #Woodpecker #WoodpeckerWednesday This is what a Pileated Woodpecker looks like after a bath and before it's used a blow dryer😉.
Reddish-brown woodpecker with black spots and a golden head with bright red patches on its cheeks standing on an angled tree truck
Reddish-brown woodpecker with black spots, an ivory-colored beak and a golden head with red patches on its cheeks, clinging to a tree trunk
Today is #WoodpeckerWednesday because you need to see this gorgeous Chestnut-colored Woodpecker. 🪶
A #WoodpeckerWednesday and #BirdOfTheDay intersection with this downy woodpecker, one of the birds with #BlackHeads
#bird #wildlife #nature #photography
Regimen fascisticum delenda est!
#WoodpeckerWednesday
Downy Woodpecker.
#birds #birdphotography #wildlife #nature #photography #EastCoastKin #ArtChallenges #JasperBirds #AlbertaBirds #CanadaBirds #photographersofBlueSky
It's #WoodpeckerWednesday so here's a few more of my husband's photos of a female #GreatSpottedWoodpecker #birds
3/ More suggested hashtags to join on a Wednesday
#RoseWednesday
#WoodlandWednesday
#WetlandWednesday
#WetlandsWednesday
#AquilineWednesday
#Wrensday
#WoodpeckerWednesday
#WaderWednesday
#WaterfowlWednesday
#WhaleWednesday
3 of 8 #WednesdayHashtags
🪶 For this week’s #WoodpeckerWednesday I have a short (slightly shaky) video of a Great Spotted Woodpecker drumming in the forest.
#birds #birdsofbluesky #birdphotography #ECK #irishbirding #naturephotography #RedWed #colorADay
So happy I saw a male red-shafted Northern Flicker #Woodpecker a few days ago for #WoodpeckerWednesday!
#birds #photography #ECK #WestCoastKin #PhotographersUnited
A backlit male Acorn Woodpecker on a lichen-covered Ponderosa Pine branch wonders if all the long green pine needles, also backlit, are framing him just the right way with some bokeh balls in the canopy beyond as background. Hmmm...
You cannot be serious...
...about natural framing with an Acorn Woodpecker. Fact.
🐦🌿 You can be...about #WoodpeckerWednesday tho! Have a sweet one, peeps!🤘😶🌫️
📸 Melanerpes formicivorus, backlit & #bokeh balled 🪶🫧
#Woodpeckers
#BirdLovers
#EastCoastKin
#Photography
Great Spotted Woodpecker among cherry blossoms.
サクラアカゲラ
ウソ撮ってたらやってきた。
#WoodpeckerWednesday
#birds #photography
#アカゲラ
Melanerpes carolinus
I confuse my non-bird friends by excitedly sharing photos of red-bellied #woodpecker. "don't you mean red-headed?"
Haha.... No! Confusing, but correct
#birds #birdwatching #photograpy #Ontario #yorkregion #pecker #nature #wildlife #woods #nativespecies #woodpeckerwednesday
A male downy woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens) shot in profile as he perches on the side of a tree facing up with his back to the right of frame and the tree on the left. His red spot on his head is visible
#woodpeckerwednesday
Downy #woodpecker - Dryobates pubescens
(Shot near Cincinnati 3-25-26) 🐦🪶 #photography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #nature #animal #bird
#WoodpeckerWednesday
#Pileated Woodpecker from 2018 in Blue Mountain Park ,Coquitlam, BC Canada. One my my very first bird captures, with a sub-par phone camera!
a northern flicker peeking out from the side of a leafless tree, blue sky in the background.
a flash of flicker!
#birds #WoodpeckerWednesday
Black and white woodpecker with a red spot on head is holding on vertically while excavating a hole in a dead conifer. There are wood chips flying through the air as he releases them.
Mr. Hairy Woodpecker excavating this week in #PtReyes for #WoodpeckerWednesday. 💚
#Birds #NaturePhotos #iNat #NationalParks #Woodpeckers 📷
"The best April fools joke is the ones birders played on ourselves" "Red-headed woodpeckers:" Next to a small bird with a long, sharp beak, a black-and-white body and a red head. "Every other woodpecker" Shows pictures of Pileated, Downy, Hairy Acorn and Red-bellied woodpeckers, all of which are some variation on a bird with a black-and-white body and a bright red head."
Happy April fools/ birding season to all who celebrate!🐦🦆🦅
#AprilFools #WoodpeckerWednesday #Birdsky
