Woodpeckers!

Tiny cameras with weak zoom aren't great for photographing small birds in trees, but I've managed to get a few shots of two different kinds of woodpeckers that live in the park:

First, Nutall's woodpecker. I almost always hear this one before I see it. And it's all like PRTT! PRTT! PRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT!


This dude (see the red?) hangs out near the long-boarded-up snack bar across from the garden center, though I've also seen it in the sycamores on Grand and in the cork oak near the garden entrance. There may be a lady somewhere around--I've heard them calling.


Second, the tiny little downy woodpecker:


I saw this little dude (and that red patch means you KNOW it's a dude) in the flowering cherry, gleaning from the twigs, not even pecking! Sheesh, what kind of woodpecker ARE you? "What? it's hard working drilling holes with your face! I don't see YOU doing it..."


Right now you are thinkin,g "these things look the same, what are you talking about two kinds of woodpecker?" You can't see the size difference, but trust me, the downy one is about an inch smaller. Also, the downy has a big white splash on its back, like someone pooped on it. In contrast, the Nuttall's has tiny black rat poops on its tum, and the downy has a clean white tum. In conclusion: POOP!