Exploring Nature: Texas Woodpeckers

Texas is blessed with a plenitude of woodpeckers, with some 14 different species in our fair state. There are some 200 species in the world.

In our area, perhaps the most common type is the golden-fronted woodpecker, so named because of a small yellow patch just above the bill, the so-called “golden front.”

I have a suet block hanging on my back deck and have seen both golden-fronted and downy woodpeckers feeding on it.