Date: 5/24/26 5:30 am From: Ann Coren <anncoren...> Subject: Re: [MDBirding] Digest for - 2 updates in 1 topic
This summer, even before we stopped putting out the suet, Downys were going
to the peanut chips in the finch feeder. Both male and female but not at
the same time. They will defend their space from each other and the finches
while they’re feeding.
Ann
In Columbia, MD
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> Possibly odd behaviour by Downy Woodpeckers
> <http://groups.google.com/group/mdbirding/t/8c06204954e36046?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email> > <jonbarrettphoto...>: May 23 08:01PM -0400
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> A few days ago I noticed a female Downy feeding at my nyjer/sunflower chip
> feeder (a wire mesh cylinder). In the last couple of days she's been joined
> by a male Downy. By "joined", I don't mean one or the other, I've
> frequently
> observed both of them there at the same time, and this evening they
> actually
> "scared off" a Cardinal who also wanted to feed there. I stopped putting
> out
> suet back in March, when things seemed to be warming up, and even while I
> had the suet out I hadn't seen them as regularly as I am now.
>
> My initial thought was that some ants or other insects had gotten in there,
> but I've refilled the feeder and this has continued, not just as an
> occasional visit but as a fairly steady series of visits. Is this an
> anomaly, or have other people observed similar behaviour?
>
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> Jon
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> Jon Barrett
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> Greenbelt, MD
> Steve Long <steve.long4...>: May 23 10:14PM -0400
>
> I regularly have Downy Woodpeckers at my tube feeder. They seem to like
> the sunflower kernels and maybe the peanut splits. They are year-round
> feeders here. But, I don't recall ever seeing 2 on the same feeder at
> once.
>
> I also have regular Red-bellied Woodpeckers at the same feeder. They
> can't get inside the cage, but can reach far enough through to get the
> peanuts.
>
> Steve Long, Oxford
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