Find the food; find the birds! In the Winter solving this problem makes a HUGE difference if you want to see any of our feathered friends. Long story short, found lots of dead birch and aspen trees in a gully where the birds could hide from the wind while eating at the same time, and suddenly the woods came alive with bird song. In this particular grove I saw over ten Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers.

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