When I entered the wooded section of the trail this morning I spied a pair of young woodpeckers exploring the tree branches and chasing each other about. They were juvenile Downy Woodpeckers. The black bars on their white tail feathers identified them as downies (the black bars are absent on the hairys). The red patch on the top of the head identified them as juveniles; the red patch is at the back of the head on adults.
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