The active little downy woodpeckers is a familiar sight at backyard feeders and in parks and woodtots,where it joins flocks of chickadees and nuthatches,barely outsizing them,An often acrobatic forager,this black -and-white woodpeckers it at home on tiny branches or balancing on slender plant gals,sycamore seed balls,and suet feeders. Downies and their larger look a like,the Hairy woodpeckers are one of the first indentification challengers that beginning bird watchers master. Downy eat mainly insects,including beetle larvae that live inside wood or tree bark as well as ants and carterpillers. They eat pest insects including corn earworm,tent Carterpillers bark beetles,and apple boarers. About a quarter of their diet consists of plant material particularly berries,acrons,and grains.Downy woodpeckers are common feeder birds,eating suet and black oil sunflower seeds and ocasionally drinking from humming bird feeders.
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.Downy Woodpeckers have been discovered nesting inside the walls of buildings.
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