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2025-12-23

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Downy Woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens), 25th February 2024
es: Pico Pubescente, fr: Pic Mineur
Larz Anderson Park, Brookline, Massachusetts
Massa-adchu-es-et (Massachusett) & Pawtucket traditional territory
Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 800mm f/11, 70% crop, 1/500s, ISO 640
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A black-and-white woodpecker with a red blaze at the back of its head checks out its work drilling a hole in the side of a tree.
2025-10-01

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Downy Woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens), 21st April 2024
es: Pico Pubescente, fr: Pic Mineur
Wakefield, Massachusetts
Massa-adchu-es-et (Massachusett), Naumkeag & Pawtucket traditional territory
Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 200-800mm f/6.3-9 + 1.4x teleconverter @ 1120mm, 65% crop, 1/640s, f/14, ISO 400
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A fluffy black-and-white woodpecker clings to a narrow woody stem.
2025-09-18

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Downy Woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens), 23rd December 2023
es: Pico Pubescente, fr: Pic Mineur
Horn Pond Conservation Area, Woburn, Massachusetts
Agawam, Massa-adchu-es-et (Massachusett) & Pawtucket traditional territory
Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 800mm f/11, 1/640s, ISO 800
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A little woodpecker, mostly seen as a fluffy white breast, cranes its neck to look back at us as it perches on mossy ground.
2025-09-09

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Downy Woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens), 11th August 2024
es: Pico Pubescente, fr: Pic Mineur
Wakefield, Massachusetts
Massa-adchu-es-et (Massachusett), Naumkeag & Pawtucket traditional territory
Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 200-800mm f/6.3-9 + 1.4x teleconverter @ 941mm, 50% crop, 1/400s, f/13, ISO 400
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An extremely young, curious-looking black-and-white woodpecker clings to the side of a wooder suet feeder.
2025-07-29

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Downy Woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens), 25th February 2024
es: Pico Pubescente, fr: Pic Mineur
Larz Anderson Park, Brookline, Massachusetts
Massa-adchu-es-et (Massachusett) & Pawtucket traditional territory
Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 800mm f/11, 20% crop, 1/500s, ISO 1250
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Head completely filling the opening, a little brown-eyed, black-and-white woodpecker peers out of a hole drilled in a tree trunk.
2025-05-21

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Downy Woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens), 6th July 2024
es: Pico Pubescente, fr: Pic Mineur
Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 200-800mm f/6.3-9 @ 800mm, 15% crop, 1/400s, f/10, ISO 3200
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A very young woodpecker, black and white with a red patch atop its head, is seen through the empty hole in a wooden suet plug feeder, peering back at us.
2024-12-07

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Downy Woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens), 8th January 2024
es: Pico Pubescente, fr: Pic Mineur
Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 800mm f/11, 40% crop, 1/640s, ISO 5000
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A young black-and-white woodpecker perches on a house-shaped feeder as it collects a seed.
2024-11-24

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Downy Woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens), 17th December 2023
es: Pico Pubescente, fr: Pic Mineur
Wakefield, Massachusetts
Massa-adchu-es-et (Massachusett), Naumkeag & Pawtucket traditional territory
Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 800mm f/11, 1/640s, ISO 5000
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Two male Downy Woodpeckers perch facing each other on the curve of a feeder pole, engaging in a pointing behavior.
2024-10-03

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Downy Woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens), 25th November 2023
es: Pico Pubescente, fr: Pic Mineur
Pine Banks Park, Melrose, Massachusetts
Massa-adchu-es-et (Massachusett), Naumkeag & Pawtucket traditional territory
Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 800mm f/11, 25% crop, 1/640s, ISO 640
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Ignoring gravity, a small woodpecker clings to the underside of a lichen-covered branch.
2024-09-22

Table for Two?
These two were enjoying their shared meal while I was cleaning out the birdbath - they seemed unusually unworried by my presence so I took the opportunity to grab my camera and get some shots. Then another Downy flew in and broke up dinner :-(

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Two little black-and-white Downy Woodpeckers, both seen in profile, feed from opposite sides of a vertical suet feeder. The male, higher-up on the left, bears a small red path at the back of the head; the female on the right holds the lowest rung of the feeder while lookup up towards the food.
2024-07-23

These little critters are fearless. I'm standing about 6 feet from the feeder here, filming with my iPhone. This is why I have to actually *walk around the feeders* to check them before I take them down to refill.

Just after I take this I turn around and there's one chasing a hawk off.

spectra.video/videos/watch/b99

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2024-07-13

Looks like Spike, at least, is trying different (& less processed!) foods.
spectra.video/w/jirCdpKvm7RVBn
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2024-07-13

The point at which you realize your juvies have a suet habit, and you're gonna need to cut them off for their own good, so that they actually eat something else.

And then they sit, staring at the empty hooks, guilting you.

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A young, female Downy Woodpecker reaches into the bars of a suet feeder, using an incredibly long tongue to reach the remaining fragments of suet.Two young Downies, a male and a female, cling to the poles of a bird-feeding stand, staring up at at empty hook.
2024-07-07

But *why* is all the suet gone?
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A young Downy Woodpecker, with the juvenile red cap, peers towards the camera through the empty tunnel in a suet log feeder.
2024-05-17

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Downy Woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens), 7th September 2023
es: Pico Pubescente, fr: Pic Mineur
Wakefield, Massachusetts
Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 800mm f/11, 30% crop, 1/640s, ISO 640
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Caught in a beam of light, a little black and white woodpecker clings to the side of a suet feeder.
2024-05-10

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Downy Woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens), 8th December 2023
es: Pico Pubescente, fr: Pic Mineur
Wakefield, Massachusetts
Massa-adchu-es-et (Massachusett), Naumkeag & Pawtucket traditional territory
Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 800mm f/11, 35% crop, 1/640s, ISO 1000
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A small white-spotted woodpecker stretches its neck out to examine the offerings in a clear-sided hopper feeder.

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