(Please see picture gallery below)  The bird of the month for June, the Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus) is sometimes mistaken for the Red Headed Woodpecker. The Red-Bellied does indeed have red in its head, but only in a stripe from neck to crown (female) or from neck to bill (male). The redhead’s head is entirely red. A pair of juvenile red-headeds was seen at Pondhawk Natural Area in Boca Raton; Red-bellieds can be seen almost anywhere. (As Bill Thompson wrote in Birding Florida, if you don’t see oneof these while you’re here, turn in your binoculars.) Come hear more about this bird at our June meeting!( (Photographer’s please note that next month’s July 2013 Bird will be the DOWNY WOODPECKER)