I Hear You Knocking (but You Can't Come In)

We get the occasional frog on our window screens (there was one last night) - but today we had a woodpecker!

The one on the feeder is the parent and the one on the screen is a full grown baby, still young enough to beg for food (and to be fed). It was quite a sight watching the two of them on a tube feeder that isn't really designed for woodpeckers at all. They are very agile though, and use their stiff woodpecker tails like an extra limb. Between them, they made a noise fit to raise the dead - I felt obliged to apologize on behalf of my birds to my husband who was trying to take a nap. Still, it was funny! And no, baby woodpecker didn't get stuck there as I feared he might - he was able to walk up and down the screen and detach and reattach himself quite happily.

They are hairy woodpeckers, in case anyone is interested.

Polk County, Wisconsin