The Little Nuthatch — red-headed woodpecker

  I first saw this Red-headed Woodpecker 5 weeks ago. I'm not exactly sure what's up... I've never seen a pair, just the one lone bird,  although there appears to be a nesting hole that I often see it hanging out near, it doesn't seem like it goes there often enough to be feeding little ones. Curious... In any case it has taken a liking to this tree in the last 5 weeks and can be seen there regularly. It is an old dead pine that the American Kestrel was hanging out on through Winter, and now they you can...

This morning I was lured outside by a Brown Thrasher outside the window. It was the first one I'd seen in the yard here so I went to check it out. Surprisingly it seemed to be building a nest as it was going about with sticks and there was a lot of ruckus in the palmetto bush. This brought me to taking a walk. There is a dead pine in the neighbors cow pasture that the American Kestrel likes to sit on so I took a look with my binoculars and then this little one flew in: My first Red-headed...