Home today and near the window where a suet feeder hangs I've been watching two males, a hairy and a downy woodpecker, somewhat share the suet. I've yet to see two birds on that suet basket at once. A talented videotographer could get some sweet footage of both these birds' likenesses and size differences. The hairy wins first rights to the suet by being big and confident, but the downy for a while was dive-bombing him from above and broadside, chittering at him, to say 'give it up for a while.' The downy did get a share when the hairy left, now the hairy is back, but all the other birds have gone elsewhere in this afternoon of the wettest possible snow, by now evidently rainfall. Some things change but some stay the same. *Tanya Beyer*
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