This afternoon I heard what I thought was knocking at our front door. Figuring it was the UPS man with a holiday package, I flung open the door and was surprised to find no one there. Soon after, I heard the knocking again and discovered it was coming from the other side of the house. I peered out the kitchen window and found a hairy woodpecker drumming away on our cedar siding! She flew away before I could get a pic, but this gives you a general idea of what I saw…
Not the holiday package I was expecting.. but I’ll take it any day!
Just pleeeease don’t look too closely at the holes in our siding. ;-P
Thanks to fellow birder, Bonnie Ott, for the use of her photo.
Enjoy the start to the holiday season, everyone!
xo, Nature Nancy
Mom's Big Year 
Saw three pileated woodpeckers yesterday headed your way. Thought that’s what you were going to say…..
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Hi Nancy – This happened to me a few weeks ago. I was sitting in the living room and couldn’t figure out what was happening – no one at the front door. I went out on the deck and around the side of the house there he was! (Or she?) The difference between a birder and non-birder is that I thought of my siding first and the bird second 🙂
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I’ve got a downy who’s working his way through one of the pickets on my deck – maybe they are cousins. I’ll save the wreckage if he gets all the way through. Mind you there’s a double suet feeder about 6 feet away – go figger?! Merry Christmas.
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