A Wonderful Week for Woodpeckers and a Fox

I kept my promise. 

I've stitched enough of the fox that it is recognizable!

Besides cross stitching, I spent lots of time watching my woodpeckers this past week.

A male Flicker spent some time on the ground near the peanut and suet feeders.

I think he was waiting his turn at a suet feeder.

He photographs well in profile with his red mustache and stripes and dots.

The peanut feeders remain popular with the Acorn Woodpeckers.

Two females at the same feeder extracted peanuts in tandem.

The young female (born last summer) is on the left, the older female is on the right. (The pink dots are Easter window decorations and also help define the window more clearly so the birds do not fly into it.) 

In the backyard, a female Flicker patiently perched in a tree. 

I thought she might fly down to the yard to look for ants.

But she appeared content to stay in her tree and just watch.

While I've seen the precision work of Red-breasted Sapsuckers, I hadn't seen any birds close up for several months.  On Saturday I caught a glimpse of two birds on a young pine tree, but did not have my camera.

On Sunday evening, I was finally rewarded with the appearance of this male at my front feeders.

I'd just changed out the food in the feeder Sunday morning, and the bird seemed more than happy to eat way at the Mixed Nut Bar. 

He came to the feeder a couple of times, staying 5-10 minutes each visit.

First he perched on the left side... 

...then perched on the right side.

An ambidextrous avian eater!!!

I was so pleased to have a Sapsucker at my feeders as they are such pretty birds. Now I have my sights on a female Sapsucker and isn't it time for a Pileated Woodpecker to fly in?