5. These woodpeckers eat more grasshoppers than any of the others. Find out whether they eat them on the ground.
6. Have you ever seen one fly into the air after a passing insect?
Fig. 324. The red-headed woodpecker.
7. Do red-headed woodpeckers ever visit your chicken yard? Watch them closely and find out why they are there.
8. Do you see them later in the year eating fruit on your farm?
9. It has been found that they eat ants, wasps, beetles, bugs, grasshoppers, crickets, moths, spiders, and caterpillars. If you find them doing harm on your farm will you not compare it with the good they do?
10. What plants do they visit?
11. Where is red-head's nest?