Acorn Woodpecker, Douglas
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Hugh Kingery
May 24, 2013, 3:08:13 PM5/24/13
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This post is for the record, but unfortunately, not for people to view, yet. I just returned from photographing an Acorn Woodpecker in a Franktown yard. The yard-birders called me about it 5 minutes before they left for the airport, and sad to say, I can't invite anyone to visit their unattended yard. I'll advise Cobirds when they return, how to contact them so as to find out if they will open up the yard to visitors. If the woodpecker stays.
The bird flew around from ponderosa trunk to ponderosa trunk, and I have some middling photographs. She maintained a consistent distance away from me -- about 25 feet or so. She came in several times in an hour, so seems comfortable with this site, its feeders, and its feeder birds.
Habitat: ponderosa pine without much understory. I wonder if observers might find more Acorn WPs wandering around Ponderosa forest/woodlands such as Castlewood Canyon State Park, Genesee Mtn., Meyer Ranch, etc. If some youngsters have vacated the site west of Pueblo, they probably want to find more Acorn WPs, and satisfactory habitat.
The bird flew around from ponderosa trunk to ponderosa trunk, and I have some middling photographs. She maintained a consistent distance away from me -- about 25 feet or so. She came in several times in an hour, so seems comfortable with this site, its feeders, and its feeder birds.
Habitat: ponderosa pine without much understory. I wonder if observers might find more Acorn WPs wandering around Ponderosa forest/woodlands such as Castlewood Canyon State Park, Genesee Mtn., Meyer Ranch, etc. If some youngsters have vacated the site west of Pueblo, they probably want to find more Acorn WPs, and satisfactory habitat.
Hugh Kingery
Franktown, CO
Franktown, CO
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