I Ask You: I feed them but don’t know them all by name

A male and female cardinal visit my feeder two or three time per week, as far as I know.


["Waiting his turn for the feeder": photos by GAH]

I’ve noticed that they sit in the tree together, a few feet apart (chilly relationship?), and usually visit the feeder one at a time.


They are easy to pick out of a crowd of birds because of their colour and size.

While a black and white feathered bird pecked away at the suet, I said to myself, “My first downy woodpecker.”


But of the name I am not 100% sure.


So, I ask you, is it a woodpecker? A downy?

Something else, besides hungry?

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My last I Ask You was about birds as well.

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