The nest of the one you saw is in a hole, high up in the old sassafras by the side fence, and some say that this is why another of his names is High-hole.

But it received all three of those names for other reasons you need not bother your head about just now.
"There are young birds in the nest now, and if you tap on the trunk with a stick you will hear them making a noise.

This seems to be Woodpecker day, for Nat has seen the little Downy in the woods, you have seen the Flicker on the lawn, and I was telling him about two others; so you are just in time _not_ to be too late.

Now write the table for Nat's Downy, first, and then we will have the rest of the Woodpeckers." The Downy Woodpecker The smallest North American Woodpecker--hardly seven inches long.
Upper parts black, with a long white patch on middle of back; wings spotted with black and white.

Some black and white bars on the outside tail-feathers.