Downies excavate or reuse a cavity in a dead tree or use a woodpecker nesting box. The female lays four to five white eggs. “I feed downies year-round!

Deterrents. If the bird is starting to make a nesting hole (or has already), you can set up nesting boxes in your yard to provide an alternative space for them that isn’t the side of your house ...

Armour-plated nesting box saves family of blue tits from hungry woodpecker. By DAILY MAIL REPORTER Updated: 04:16 EDT, 19 May 2008 ...

Before then, their entire lives had been spent in a man-made nest box about the size of a 16-ounce beer can, installed inside a mature longleaf on a hill overlooking Lake Mitchell, near Clanton.

Many North American birds are cavity-nesters — that is, they nest in holes in trees and fence posts. Woodpeckers can use their strong bills to chisel holes to create their ...

We are being bedeviled by a woodpecker (a yellow-bellied sapsucker, to be precise) who wakes us up every morning at 4:45 by tapping on a metal strip at the edge of our roof, and then visits ...

We want it to become part of the local woodpecker culture." The plan for now, he said, is to get the remaining 30 boxes up in trees and then watch and monitor to see what happens over the next few ...

"It really looked like it was going to get through," Mr Jones said. The 58-year-old bought a £2.50p nest box plate from an RSPB shop in Sandwell, West Midlands, to prevent the woodpecker from ...

BIRDIE THIRTY: "Red-Bellied Woodpeckers: male vs female" - EWN at 9:30am on 6-7-2025. ... while the male guards the nest box and defends the territory. The nest she is building now is for brood #2.

A woodpecker has been photographed repeatedly attacking a 10ft snake which invaded its nest in the Amazon.