The Ground Feeding Woodpecker

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witt Joined: 3/28/2008 Location: Lancaster, SC Posts: 16624 Moderator	Posted: Apr/17/2008 5:24 AM PST I don't know why I started a new topic.I meant to reply. Excuse my ignorance. Anyway here's a pic that I got off the net of the type of woodpecker that is eating off the ground. Attachments: Quote \| Reply \| Report

yardgranny6 Joined: 7/05/2007 Location: Posts: 4556 Moderator	Posted: Apr/17/2008 7:05 PM PST That is really a good question. I don't think I have ever seen them on the ground either. Might be a good question on a birding site. Linda B Quote \| Reply \| Report

witt Joined: 3/28/2008 Location: Lancaster, SC Posts: 16624 Moderator	Posted: Apr/18/2008 2:35 AM PST I'm guess that it is a learned behavoir just like the babies that learned to eat off the feeder because the parent taught them that. We watched one yesterday. He flew to the tree trunk and sat there. He eyes the feeder and then looked at the ground. He'd look up, and then look down as if he were thinking, "It sure would be easier to get these seeds off the ground than to fly up, get a seed, and then fly back up into the tree to crack it before eating." He decided to fly down and eat off the ground. There he was hopping around with a thrush, a few cardinals, some goldfinches, and some bird I wasn't quite sure what it was. Quote \| Reply \| Report