Author: Greg (---.midway.tds.net)
Date: 10-27-02 09:35
By your description, it certainly sounds like it is a woodpecker species. My guess is that you probably are looking at an immature red-headed woodpecker. The immature resembles the adult, but has a brown head, and 2 dark bars on the white wing patch. There is an image of a very young red-headed (still a nestling) at http://www.uwgb.edu/birds/wbba/species/images/rhwo3jb.jpg However, by this time of the year, I'd expect that your bird would start looking more and more like an adult. I think that the red spot on its breast is a place where the immature bird is beginning to get its adult plumage and if I'm correct, I'd expect this red area and the rest of the brown head to gradually get its red feathers.
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