I was at Bill and Alice’s long enough to observe the habits of several birds and be ready when they showed up. The Gila Woodpecker was one of the most predictable. It would always land near the top of one of the Palm trees, peck a few times, look around,
and dive down
to the Hummingbird feeder, or at least what was intended to be
a Hummingbird feeder,
though I think the Gila Woodpeckers had taken possession since I never saw a Hummingbird land on it.
I’ll admit that I always thought it was the same Gila Woodpecker that was visiting the feeder, but when I started working with the photos I realized that it was at least two different birds that followed the same pattern since one of these birds is a male (the one with the red topknot) and the other one is a female.