Bird Watching: DAILY BIRD PICTURES, VOLUME 389, 1 by nanny_56

nanny_56 wrote:
Flickers are just not reliable visitors in my experience and this has been mentioned before. The Downy's are the ones you can count on to come everyday. The rest are not ones you can really count on to show up everyday. You just have to acccept the fact that they find food from a number of sources besides your (or your neighbors!) suet feeder and you really have no control over it. Mother Nature does it better then we do!

You are fretting way to much over all this. I would love to have a Red-headed Woodpecker come again. We had one once back in 2007. Haven't had one since. Why....who knows!! I suggest you get in the habit of walking around your neighborhood with your camera and seeing what you can find. You just might even come across that Pileated while your are out!

This photo is from back in 2009 in a yard just down the road from my house. If I hadn't been out walking I would have never seen her! You can't wait for them to come to you....you have to go looking for them!