I thought I mentioned it before, but Linda Clougherty and I saw then caching food a couple weeks ago. We did see them with some kind of nut and also insects. Really cool!
Ann Mitchell Sent from my IPhone On Aug 20, 2013, at 7:42 PM, "Marie P. Read" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey there's a thought...caching food...definitely something that woodpeckers > do. > Anyway, woodpeckers do indeed bring out fecal material (a mix of droppings > and wood chips rather than a sac (songbirds only I think)), but one might > have to watch for a number of hours before it happens. > > I may have to head up there myself...I know, what took me so long, right? > > Marie > > > Marie Read Wildlife Photography > 452 Ringwood Road > Freeville NY 13068 USA > > Phone 607-539-6608 > e-mail [email protected] > > http://www.marieread.com > > ***NEW*** Music of the Birds Vol 1 ebook for Apple iPad now available from > iTunes > > http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/music-of-the-birds-v1/id529347014?mt=11 > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] > [[email protected]] on behalf of Dave Nutter > [[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 7:32 PM > To: CAYUGABIRDS-L > Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Red-headed Woodpeckers at May's Point > > I'm not surprised at them eating fruit, which I've seen many woodpecker > species do many times, but I am surprised they would feed fruit to nestlings. > Is it possible they are caching the food? Has anyone seen the adults emerge > with fecal sacs? Would this species carry off fecal sacs? Nice photos by the > way, Paul, and thanks for taking the time to observe carefully. > > --Dave Nutter > > On Aug 20, 2013, at 07:06 PM, Anne Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > Back in the 80's when I was living in SW Michigan (near Kellogg Biological > Station, in Delton, MI), a pair of red-headed woodpeckers brought their > fledglings every year to eat mulberries at a productive group of trees. > > More unusual that they would take them to protein-needy nestlings (albeit > very late nestlings). But robins in the same Michigan property fed their > nestlings on mulberries. > > Anne Clark > > On Aug 20, 2013, at 6:51 PM, Paul wrote: > > Spent about three hours watching the Red-headed Woodpeckers at May’s Point > this morning. Very active until about 10 am. Saw an interesting sequence > when a Merlin made a pass at the nest cavity,, actually several passes to > which the adult RHW responded with loud calls and some defensive attacks. > Thereafter, the pair were on sentry duty, one in an adjacent cavity watching > south and the other to the north in a tree along the river. The Merlin was > in the area for about 5 minutes. They stayed on alert for about 20 minutes > longer before resuming activity. > > More interesting was a discovery on what they are bringing into the nest > cavity. (Have not yet seen chicks at the opening. Has anyone?) While > sometimes, I can see that they are bringing insects such as dragonflies, at > other times it appeared to be round objects. Did not seem possible to be > acorns. Now, I’ve posted some images on my blog > (http://birds-n-blooms.blogspot.com/) which show an adult bringing wild > grapes to the cavity. There are ripe grapes on the vines in the area. On my > first visit (July 24), I recorded an adult picking Woody Nightshade berries > from vines at the base of dead trees to the north east of the nest tree. 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