In my ‘back yard’ I have several bird feeders, including a large hanging cone-shaped seed & nut cake the woodpeckers like.
A male Downy was perched on it eating seeds when a juvenile Downy landed on the pole above the cake & started baby-begging /wing flapping. Father went up & fed the kid a couple times , then they both flew away. Soon, the cranberry-capped kid came back & perched on the cake & proceeded to peck at it & eat it on his/her own! Is it fooling father into giving it an easy meal or just learning to eat on its own😊? Donna Scott Kendal at Ithaca-377 Sent from my iPhone -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
