Bird Watching: Daily Bird Pics # 400, 0 by pelletory

pelletory wrote:
Great shots everyone! So many wonderful birds.

I meant to post this the other day. It is the very first time that a male and female Red-bellied Woodpecker have been on a feeder together let alone being at the same feeding station. The males will normally drive the females away quite angrily. I think I have 3 pairs of these birds coming into the yard.

When I was down at my sisters house near the shore ( but in the woods ) I saw birds flying into the top edge of her front garage door. I told her they were nesting in there.
Yesterday she calls me and says as she was trying to close the garage door before leaving and it wouldn't close. She thought it was mulch or leaves stuck in the tracks.
Suddenly she spot's a large snake up there and then a second snake both around 5 ft. long. They had of course been up there eating the eggs or chicks. A lot of people came there to see them before wildlife management came to remove them. No one bothered to say what type they were for some reason or whether they were poisonous. She said they were grey with white stripes. The wildlife guy just put them both in the woods behind her house and said they wouldn't be back. Way too much excitement for her,lol.