Rondeau Ric

 Not a woodpecker species we see at the water very often. We have had various ones bath but not drink. Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, November 15, 2024 Dryobates pubescens.  Woodpeckers don’t sing songs, but they drum loudly against pieces of wood or metal to achieve the same effect. People sometimes think this drumming is part of the birds’ feeding habits, but it isn’t. In fact, feeding birds make surprisingly little noise even when they’re digging vigorously into wood.

  At friend Davids stream, September 16, 2024, Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada. A beautiful little migrant. Setophaga americana.. Before this species received the name Northern Parula (a diminutive form of  parus , meaning little titmouse), Mark Catesby, an English naturalist, called it a "finch creeper" and John James Audubon and Alexander Wilson called it a "blue yellow-backed warbler."