This Morning at Anson Nixon Park

Clarke Green

15 Feb 2025 — 1 min read

Downy Woodpecker

February 14, 2025

A wonderful cold, yet sunny February Morning between long stretches of gray days. The residents of the park were actively trying to make up for lost time.

Downy woodpeckers are the smallest of six woodpecker species at the park.

Skunk cabbage flowers continue their slow emergence, here you can see inside the spathe to the developing spadix. See an earlier look here Sapthe and Spadix

More emerging Skunk Cabbage

The White-tailed Deer were making the most of the fine weather.

This White-breasted Nuthatch was hard at work (more pictures in tomorrow's post).

A Pileated Woodpecker was making the rounds.

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