![Dependent Juvenile! -- Downy Woodpeckers (Picoides pubescens); Santa Fe National Forest, NM, Thompson Ridge [Lou Feltz] | by deserttoad](http://live.staticflickr.com/4614/39967949541_d5359b0232.jpg)
Dependent Juvenile! -- Downy Woodpeckers (Picoides pubescens); Santa Fe National Forest, NM, Thompson Ridge [Lou Feltz]
This scene is repeated all over the forest this time of year... youngsters begging to be fed by a parent... while the food is readily at hand. This Downy chick is as large as the parent, and still begging to be fed. This male adult Downy (upper bird) reaches around the tree to the suet feeder to get a beakfull of suet and transfers it to the waiting chick. (Even birds manage to spoil their kids!)
IMG_4421; Downy Woodpeckers
Dependent Juvenile! -- Downy Woodpeckers (Picoides pubescens); Santa Fe National Forest, NM, Thompson Ridge [Lou Feltz]
This scene is repeated all over the forest this time of year... youngsters begging to be fed by a parent... while the food is readily at hand. This Downy chick is as large as the parent, and still begging to be fed. This male adult Downy (upper bird) reaches around the tree to the suet feeder to get a beakfull of suet and transfers it to the waiting chick. (Even birds manage to spoil their kids!)
IMG_4421; Downy Woodpeckers