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Category: My Garden Birds | Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 6:57 pm

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The red patch is just a male thing, you didn't think I would of missed mentioning it if it helped with the ID did you. Both species males have it. Here is the male downy showing his off.


Male Downy Woodpecker. ( photo / image / picture from Kildale's Garden )






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eileen wrote on Wed Apr 22, 2009 7:22 pm:

Our Great spotted and Lesser spotted males have the red on their heads too Kildale. Like yours though it is absent in the female.

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Green_Numb wrote on Wed Apr 22, 2009 8:31 pm:

thats just the spot his wife pecks him at when he needs straightening out :-p

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