Bird Watching: Daily pics #335, 1 by misseymarie

misseymarie wrote:
Beautiful pictures everyone! Hairy woodpeckers are one of my favorites. About 3 weeks ago I watched as a adult male Red-Bellied flew from tree to tree with a baby female, the adult male came to the feeders but the baby didn't. Sunday I saw what I think is the baby female, by looking at this photo can any one tell me if this is a baby? when I saw it 3 weeks ago it didn't have the red feathers in yet but you could see the dark gray outline and I was able to tell it was a female. All the adults that are coming to the feeders white feathers are gray and dirty and very thin. How long does it take for the red feathers to come in?