Pictures were taken during the past few months

They are fun to watch.

This is a female, because the red cap does not go to the beak.

The red on the male goes from his crown to his beak.

It is often difficult to figure out why they are called red-bellied, but this photo shows a blush of read on its lower belly.

I like how the sun and angle of its head captured the red feathers.

Fact from the internet: Male and female red-bellied woodpeckers share incubation duties although the male typically incubates the eggs at night as well as during periods throughout the day.

Interesting fact from our bird book (Stokes Field Guide to Birds – Eastern Region): As a part of courtship, male and female mutually tap on a tree, with one inside a potential nest hole, the other outside.

She is eating at our ground feeder. This is where I put old seed and suet. I put it here because some of the larger birds will eat it here – as well as skunks and raccoons.