Their diet includes fruits ... they often excavate a nest cavity in a dead limb coming off a live tree. The red-bellied woodpecker courtship process is, I hate to say it, almost romantic.

Heaven to a red-bellied woodpecker must surely be a cherry tree full of ripe cherries. Our forests are healthier with woodpeckers present because their primary diet consists of insects.

For red-bellied woodpeckers, normally a Carolinean forest species, what’s going right?The size of a hairy woodpecker, red-bellieds don’t ... they enjoy a much wider diet than all other woodpeckers ...

Red-bellied woodpecker: A bird with a not-obvious blush ... The bird returns to eat, sap being about 20% of a diet that includes insects and fruit. Northern flicker: Our second-largest woodpecker ...

Q: A red-bellied woodpecker has been taking sunflower seeds ... with the nearly invisible red wash on its stomach. Its diet typically is made up of insects, seeds and fruit and they hide some ...

Hot pepper suet nuggets - a delicious little package of high-fat nutrition for your wild birds. The Blue Jay, Northern Cardinal, and Northern Mockingbird in this video clearly approve, and the hot ...

Their omnivorous diet includes insects, nuts, berries. Only three North American woodpeckers — the red-headed, along with red-bellied and acorn woodpecker — store food in crevices. The red ...

At least one red-bellied woodpecker visits my yard nearly every ... probably looking for insects that make up about half its diet. With a tongue that extends up to two inches beyond its beak ...

And believe it or not, one is at our feeder on Dec. 13. It is the only zebra-backed woodpecker having a red cap. The male has a whole crown and the female has a red one, on the nape only. Q: A reader ...

The Downy Woodpecker and Red-Bellied Woodpecker in this video are pulling whole hot pepper suet nuggets from this feeder. Birds will readily eat hot pepper foods, while mammals like squirrels ...

The American Bird Conservancy attributes the expanded range of the red-bellied woodpecker, and other species, to the more-moderate winters in areas like southwestern Pennsylvania, as well as the ...

A red-bellied woodpecker feeds its young in the nest hole of a sweet gum tree in northeast Charlotte. JOHN D. SIMMONS [email protected] From hummingbirds to cardinals, bird feeders to ...