Did you know...?

...that the plural for Titmouse is Titmice? I have a few of them out by the feeder every now and then. They're nice to look at and seem mild mannered enough.

I've also been observing another woodpecker - other than the golden fronted woodpecker that I mentioned earlier. I think it's a female Downy Woodpecker. She is small, has black and white markings all over her body with a white belly, white streak on her back and white streaks on her face. The male would have an additional red marking on the back of his head.

My bird book says "it is the smallest, tamest and most abundant of our eastern woodpeckers. It comes readily to suet feeders in suburband yards and is a familiar sight in city parks and in roadside shade trees and shrubbery."

Now that I'm looking at it - it might be a Red-cockaded Woodpecker instead....? I can see the slight differences in my book, but it's tough to get close enough in real life to positively decide which it is.