Rat-a-tat-a-tat

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Who the heck was knocking at my door at about 8 a.m. I was wondering? Well I got dressed to take a peek out the window. Nothing there at all. So I sat outside with my coffee after the annoying noise at my door. So I thought it was my door. As I sat in my chair sipping my hot coffee I hear it again. RAT-A--TAT-TAT!! Well I looked up in my Red Maple. There was this Downy Woodpecker feasting away on the bugs in a broken limb of the tree. I yelled, whistled, and stomped the deck and it stayed firmly at it's dinner table. ASfter a few times trying to scare it off I grabbed my camera. This is him eating/pecking away at the tiny incects in the tree branches. Do you have woodpeckers imn your area? Do they wake you up with the rat-a-tat-ting at all? I am getting a few suet feeders next year for the various birds such as this one to feed on next year. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB!!~