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Diane Donnelly
Olmsted Township, OH, United States
Category 5: Sweet for Suet
McSuet kids meal
At what age do the immature red bellied woodpeckers get their red heads? I have one at my feeders again this year and don’t know if it’s the one from last year or another one from this years hatch.
Sally: did you get an answer to your question? I ask because I had an immature red bellied woodpecker at my feeder (grape jelly) this morning and was looking for the same info, trying to confirm that this is a young-of-the-year bird. I did find this:
https://birdsna.org/Species-Account/bna/species/rebwoo/appearance “Juvenile plumage is worn from May to Sep…” That suggests to me that are birds are ones that hatched here.
Thanks for the information. We have a juvenile visiting our suet feeder. This has been the first offspring we have noticed. Parents are here year round.
today I watched a mature red bellied woodpecker get suet from suet cage and feed an immature one in its mouth with the suet. Priceless!!!
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