A man named Dennis Davenport caught these images of a Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens) that appears to have some sort of frog nestled underneath the feathers of its wing. Has anyone ever seen anything like this before? The frog seems to have made a mess of the feathers but aren't known to be parasitic.
A comment from the article reads:"When seeing these photos, I can’t help but wonder if the little Downy Woodpecker is okay.""Dennis says:
It’s possible he is okay because he was jumping from weed to weed and weed to tree trunk with no trouble, and his head was jack-hammering like crazy to get what he wanted from the weeds."
Link to the Flickr gallery. Has an additional image:
