No, Rita, sadly enough, it was a red "bellied" which actually have the yellowish belly with the red head... Yeah, I know the red heads is rare... We had a pair for a couple years up in Wes Ginny..

We are very tickled with the purplr finch, however...

Fionn,

Ahhhh, yer woodpecker wasn't lookin' for bugs in the aluminim ladder. He was lookin' fir love... They pound on resonate stuff with a definate rythunm to it to make it known that they are "available"... Sometimes they will do it on the gable of a bouse becuase it resonates nicely...

Bobert