Hello: Last Sunday while birding along the railroad tracks in the Morgan Park neighborhood I heard 2 Red-bellied Woodpeckers constantly calling to each other, so I decided to investigate and possibly take some photos of them. When I located the adults I notice a immature bird that looked like it recently fledged that was being fed by the adults. This would be a probable first county nesting record of this species for St. Louis Co.
A few years ago a birder found a hole in a tree along Hwy 23 in the neighborhood of Fond Du Lac just west of Morgan Park by 10 miles where adult Red-bellied Woodpeckers were seen entering but as far as I know there were no other reports of evidence of successful nesting ( no reports of eggs or young in the nest hole ). I did take a photo of the young Red-bellied Woodpecker that was basically all brown in color except the black barring on the back. Also this past spring I reported Red-bellied Woodpeckers in the approximately same location, so its most likely these are the same birds. Mike Hendrickson Mike Hendrickson Duluth, Minnesota Website: http://webpages.charter.net/mmhendrickson/ Blog: http://colderbythelakebirding.blogspot.com/ ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
