One warm summer's day I sat down on the sward under an oak, and leaned my gun against it, intending to watch the movements of a pair of woodpeckers who had young close by.
I followed one of the rarer woodpeckers one morning for a long time, but notwithstanding all my care and trouble could not learn much of its ways.
The woodpeckers do not each have a particular dry limb to which they resort at all times to drum, like the one I have described.
I have discovered several other woodpeckers in adjoining orchards, each of which has a like home, and leads a like solitary life.
In fact, our woodpeckers are just as characteristically drummers as is the ruffed grouse, and they have their particular limbs and stubs to which they resort for that purpose.
In digging out these retreats the woodpeckers prefer a dry, brittle trunk, not too soft.
The notes of the ordinary downy and hairy woodpeckers suggest, in some way, the sound of a steel punch; but that of the high-hole is much softer, and strikes on the ear with real springtime melody.
The birds were unusually plentiful and noisy about the head of this lake; robins, blue jays, and woodpeckers greeted me with their familiar notes.
Our smaller woodpeckers are sometimes accused of injuring the apple and other fruit trees, but the depredator is probably the larger and rarer yellow-bellied species.
Another trait our woodpeckershave that endears them to me, and that has never been pointedly noticed by our ornithologists, is their habit of drumming in the spring.
Defn: Of or pertaining to the woodpeckers (Pici), or to the Piciformes.
American woodpeckersof the genus Sphyrapicus, especially the yellow-bellied woodpecker (S.
Defn: A division of birds including the woodpeckers and wrynecks.
Defn: Any species of very small woodpeckers of the genus Picumnus and allied genera.
Can I beat the drum with my bill, as the four-toed Woodpeckers do?
Woodpeckers are not always drumming for worms, let me tell you.
Enough is known on the subject, however, to enable us to say that they are similar to those of the Woodpeckers of the states.
Food: As the name implies, acorn woodpeckers feed mostly on acorns which are stored in holes drilled in communal trees.
Nest: Hawk owls usually nest in natural cavities or in enlarged holes of pileated woodpeckers and flickers.
Role of woodpeckers in control of the codling moth in Nova Scotia.
Violet-green swallows, pygmy nuthatches, and northern three-toed woodpeckers accounted for much of the decline.
Food: Hairy woodpeckers prefer to feed on insects on dead and diseased trees (Bent 1939).
Food: White-headed woodpeckers feed primarily on pine seeds during the winter and early spring, and on insects during the summer.
Winter ecology of migrant and resident Lewis' woodpeckers in southeastern Colorado.
Nest: Red-headed woodpeckers most commonly excavate holes in the trunks of dead trees.
Woodpeckers as predators of the codling moth in Nova Scotia.
As we have seen, some coppersmiths and pied woodpeckersbegan nesting operations in February, but the great majority do not lay eggs until March.
Hearing somebody drumming on tin, I peeped over the wall, and saw one of these pigeon woodpeckers hammering an old tin pan lying in the middle of the pasture.
The golden-winged woodpeckers shouted comparatively little before the middle of the month, and I heard nothing of their tender wick-a-wick until the 22d.
The woodpeckers had been busy about the roof, during the day, and the noise did not disturb his work.
So they sat there undisturbed,--the woodpeckers chattering overhead and the voices of the children coming pleasantly from the hollow below.
The woodpeckers all build in about the same manner, excavating the trunk or branch of a decayed tree and depositing the eggs on the fine fragments of wood at the bottom of the cavity.
With woodpeckers and kindred species, and with birds that burrow in the ground, as bank swallows, kingfishers, etc.
The first of my two red-headed woodpeckers was near the base of Missionary Ridge, wasting his time in exploring pole after pole along the railway.
Chickadees and woodpeckers would alight upon the meat and peck it swinging in the wind, but the crows were fearful.
Another trait ourwoodpeckers have that endears them to me is their habit of drumming in the spring.
The woodpeckers are not nest-builders, but rather nest-carvers.
Among all the woodpeckers the drum plays an important part in the matchmaking.
The woodpeckers make a cavity when a suitable trunk or branch is found, but the chickadee, with its small, sharp beak, rarely does so; it usually smooths and deepens one already formed.
I watch these woodpeckers daily to see if I can solve the mystery as to how they hop up and down the trunks and branches without falling away from them when they let go their hold.
The little black-and-white downy and the flicker are the two woodpeckers which make the Park their home.
So the work of the sapsucker is injurious, while the grub-seeking woodpeckers confer only good upon the trees they frequent.
Sparrows, chickadees, and woodpeckers go nearly wild with excitement when they discover the little owl, hovering about him and occasionally making darts almost in his very face.
Something seems already to have hinted to Nature that this protection is no longer necessary, and we often find eggs almost white, like those of woodpeckers and owls, which nest in dark places.
The woodchucks were already asleep below-ground, and of the birds only the woodpeckers and the crossbills, and some smaller birds fluttering among the pine-branches, remained.
The two Spotted Woodpeckers are none the less interesting, however, although unfortunately they are much more difficult to discover, and apt to be thought much rarer than they really are.
Curiously enough the exact reverse is the case in many a southern shire; in Devonshire, for instance, we may see more Green Woodpeckers in a week than we might see in a year in not a few of our northern woods.
Downy and Hairy the Woodpeckers were getting their breakfast from a piece of suet Farmer Brown's boy had thoughtfully fastened in one of the apple-trees for them.
But theWoodpeckers seem to like new houses best, which, as I said before, is a very good thing for the rest of us.
I don't know any other Woodpeckers who come down on the ground at all.
Peter has always had the idea that true Woodpeckers never go down on the ground.
I recently read in a work on ornithology that the rings of small holes which we see in the trunks and limbs of perfectly sound apple-trees are made by woodpeckers in search of grubs and insects.
This also seemed to me a hasty conclusion, because the woodpeckers made holes so large that the next season the bluebirds nested there.
The woodpeckers were probably drilling for a place to nest.
From here we saw plenty of chickadees, titmice, nut-hatches, and otherwoodpeckers busily engaged in hunting their breakfasts.
The "caw" of the crows was quite loud here and, with the added notes of the woodpeckers and chickadees, made it quite lively.
Unlike the woodpeckers its tail-feathers are not developed to form stiff, pointed spines.
Hour after hour passed by, but I could hear no sounds except the notes of the birds in the trees, the woodpeckers searching for insects in the bark, and the cries of the squirrels as they skipped from branch to branch.
Holes made by woodpeckers can sometimes be plugged up with a piece of Oak.
In the sycamores there was an uproar of linnets, sparrows triumphed, woodpeckers climbed along the chestnut trees, administering little pecks on the bark.
In importance after the woodpeckers come the members of the sparrow family that inhabit the Tahoe region.
Woodpeckers are numerous, and two or three species may be seen almost anywhere in a day's walk through one of the wooded sections.
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