Red-bellied Woodpecker Baby and Mother

For several years I’ve watched the Red-bellied Woodpeckers nest and raise their young in my backyard, and every year these beautiful birds amaze me even more.

Red-bellied feeding time.

Red-bellied woodpecker feeding baby.

Momma Woodpecker teaching Baby!!

One evening my husband Ron called me and said “The woodpecker is teaching her baby to eat the woodpecker suet cake!!!”