Yesterday I caught my first two red-bellied woodpeckers. They are one of the easiest birds to hear for me, they have a beautiful, very loud call that sounds like gurgling water. There is a nest, a cavity high up in a dead tree, not too far from where I live, and I've seen then flying about but never had one in the hand until yesterday. I expected their bellies to be bright red from the name, but they are more orangish/yellow streaked:
(Yes, dad, that's me holding it in the photo on top and it is pecking at my fingers quite vigorously but it didn't hurt, I promise!)
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