A beautiful bird with a weird name  

You probably do, since I see you live in the Midwest. We have so many beautiful birds and other wildlife in this part of the country!

LOL! That's as good an answer as any, because I don't understand half the names they give birds. He certainly is pretty, if not hairy!

That could be. It could also be, like the person before you said, that the watcher was drunk when he named it!

We have a lot of different woodpeckers here. The red-bellied which I posted about the other day that doesn't have a red belly but some red on its head, this non-hairy hairy woodpecker, a red-headed one that really does have a read head and a lot of others I'm not familiar with. I saw another type yesterday but he didn't stay long enough for me to get a picture.

One of the reasons I love winter is because of all the beautiful birds!

I had heard that the UK was having trouble with snow. Here, it is a yearly occurrence and the trash trucks are huge, they don't seem to have much trouble getting around. That must be very unpleasant to have your trash hanging about! The rat must think he's in heaven!

I love Robins, but they've left for the year. They will be back in the spring and I'll be glad to see them!

This one has no red on him! I'm surprised, because I saw a black and white one last winter with a little red stripe. It's strange how many woodpeckers have red on them, isn't it? This one really looks nice in the sunshine!

I can kind of understand the "bald" in eagle--to someone without binoculars it might look as if it is bald. But any idiot who has spent time outside like birdwatchers (and namers) knows that birds aren't bald.

That's a great picture! I have also seen the red-headed woodpecker but only a couple of times. I love to watch them. The starlings also like the suet and they and the red bellied woodpecker get into arguments sometimes--the woodpecker always wins!

Oh yes, the Starlings are a big suet eater at my feeder as well and the Grackles. Even the smaller birds like eating suet. I have seen both the male and female downy woodpeckers at my feeder and both the male and female red bellied woodpecker. You are right about the red bellied woodpecker and starlings fighting at times. :-)