Bird Watching: Injured Red-bellied Woodpecker, 1 by sadie_mae

sadie_mae wrote:
Would anyone want to take a guess at what might have hap pended to this poor guy. One side looks completely normal but the other side is either injured or diseased. He seems to be eating and flying fine, but is constantly "looking over his shoulder" when he eats, so I wondering if he was attacked by something. I'll post 3 pics 2 of the bad side, 1 of the good. **Warning, he looks pretty bad so if you're squeamish, don't look**