Drumming Drumming

Design - "Nine Drummers"
Chart - "On the Seventh Day of Christmas"
Designer - The Cricket Collection
Fabric - 30 count Glen Ellyn R & R linen 
Fibers - DMC - 2 strands over 2 threads
Started - 25 September 2017
Completed - 6 October 2017

This is a Christmas ornament meant to be finished in a pear shape, but I think it could be framed or finished as a square.  It's part of a 12 days of Christmas series by the Cricket Collection - all the charts are in print.  I chose not to use Kreinik for the red atop the bird's head and the top gold band of the drum.  IT certainly would be more sparkily with Kreinik, but I was not up to the challenge of stitching with it. 

With that finish what other birds can I feature but woodpeckers.

Here's a female Downy Woodpecker.

I'm seeing a Downy about once a week.

You can compare the Downy's general size and beak size with this larger female Hairy Woodpecker.

Longer bill and larger bird!

Only one photo this week of an Acorn Woodpecker - a male.

I did see a Red-breasted Sapsucker...

...but was not able to get good photos.

Sometimes I see two or three different woodpeckers on the same tree.

Here's a male Flicker high in the right and a male Hairy below.

Female and male Flickers.