Hand-feeding Wild Downy Woodpecker

http://www.kellydodgeart.com This male Downy Woodpecker has been coming for a couple years to hand-feed at my back door. To see paintings that I have done of he, his mate and young please go to my website at www.kellydodgeart.com.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Downy
• Woodpecker
• hand-feeding
• birds
• kellydodge
• tame

[Silkara78]

We have Downy's at our feeders, they eat the suet. What a wonderful thing it must be to handfeed them! They are so cute

[kellydodge]

@Silkara78 Yes, I just love them. Great little birds.

[NancyToday]

I love that!  I am going to have to get some of them to feed them! I am excited! A new project! The nuthatches and chickadees will eat from my hands, though.

[kellydodge]

@NancyToday That is great...the downy's will be eating out of your hand's in no time!

[Hx470]

If my sister even thought about holding the worms, she would freak out. O_o

[kellydodge]

@Hx470 You forget all about the worms once the little bird lands on your hand :)

[jgjuza]

awesome!



[6V92TA]

Ive never gotten that lucky. Ive had a chickadee hover in my face. Only had pigeons land on my hand. You get about 5 or 6 of those birds perched on your out stretched arm and it gets downright heavy lol

[shoopwhoopX]

@kellydodge *waxworm

[theiglady]

That's amazing