For the next two to three weeks, have fun birding by using your ears. The various species of woodpeckers will start to fledge their young, and if you listen … you will find their woodpecker holes  nests … just use your ears. Woodpeckers will still be drumming, and normally that occurs near their nest holes. For the final few days the youngsters will start sticking their heads & necks out of the holes and demanding food. I good app to learn both the drumming and chick calls is Cornell’s Merlin. Open the app … select explore … then the desired species … and finally all sounds.

Here is a Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker which has decided a “no parking sign” near my house is a great drumming sound board! (video link for blog subscribers)

Amity Creek Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker

And Bald Eagle Roadkill Cafe … I suspect this eagle is about three years old having just acquired its white head and tailfeathers … amazing how close it was willing to eat next to the highway. Eagles normally flush somewhat quickly. Images taken near my house on the Two Harbors Expressway.