A Woodie in the Magnolia

I was taking our dog for a walk. Cosmo stopped to sniff something. I looked up into the top branches of our Magnolia tree. A bird was rustling in the leaves. We have a Northern Mockingbird there sometimes. This time it was the beautiful Red Bellied Woodpecker.

The Red Bellied Woodpecker is strictly an eastern bird. We did not see it in northern California. There we saw the Acorn Woodpecker and the Nuttal's Woodpecker. They will have to come to the eastern United States to see the Red Bellied Woodpecker.

E-bird's Map for Red Bellied Woodpecker Sightings

Robert and Berry

photo courtesy of weeksbay.org
map courtesy of ebird