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Brand New Downies

We recently had a couple of very cute visitors to the yard – a couple of hatch year downy woodpeckers. They seemed to be eagerly checking out their surroundings, much like excited youngsters of any species in a new environment.  They were so small that when the first one landed on the tree, I thought for a minute it was a Brown-creeper.

Posted by Pat Bumstead