Walking the dogs, Willow the Italian Greyhound cross, found what I believe is a juvenile Red-bellied Woodpecker, fresh out of the nest hole.
Based on location found, it may be hatched out of one of the hollow tree-limb birdhouses I put up a year or two ago. It was no more than 20 feet away.
I got the chick away from the dog (no damage, and a *very* animated chick). I then sussed out what to do using an Amazon box (mulch and sticks on the bottom), which I placed on top of my car, safe from raccoons, possums, fox, black rat snakes, and hawks.
Mom will be close by, and I have other cars to drive. Woodpeckers are box or tree hollow nesters, and an Amazon box is going to feel familiar.
If the chick is still in the box tomorrow morning, it will get a limb ladder out, and the box will get placement in a high tree.
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