Every species known to occur in our region*, except the Pileated, showed up regularly. I saw little Downys doing a mating dance on our deck. Saw male/female couples of downy, hairy, red-bellied and red-headed woodpeckers, and yellowhammers (AL state bird) in groups. Red-winged blackbirds and Brewer's blackbird in flocks of 2-3 dozen. Brown thrashers (GA state bird) were fairly common, and we saw towhees, spotted thrushes and nuthatches reasonably often. Even spotted some birds rarer in our area, like redstarts, Savannah wren, and one species of warbler (memory fails me).
Woodpeckers search for food mostly in the bark of dead and dying trees which are infested with grubs. A heavily wooded area near us, which was the property of a church, was cleared to put up a "multi-purpose facility" which is used probably twice a week -- serving God by destroying His creations, I guess. Yellowhammers have been gone ever since, and I've only noticed woodpeckers when I've heard them attacking our wooden trim (three times in the years since the woods were torn down). Mostly just the most common birds -- cardinals, robins, blue jays, sparrows, wrens -- remain. And that's despite us keeping a birdbath and a suet cage for the wookpeckers. The suet sits dry and uneaten, and we have half a dozen packages of it we'll probably never use now.
All for the sake of more and more acreage covered by monoclonal green lawns.
*To be honest, my memory isn't clear re. the yellow-bellied sapsucker.
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