Study of the Red-Breasted Woodpecker
This morning, I was playing around with my Nikon camera after catching sight of the colorful Goldfinches and my little Red-Breasted Woodpecker. I took many photos and suddenly, my little woodpecker friend did something I have never caught before! It landed on a branch!
If you have looked at my blog for any amount of time, you have seen my brightly colored woodpecker before. It is always, always sitting with its body against an oak tree. I was thrilled when it landed on a branch and offered me a look!
Yikes! That beak reminds me of the dentist’s drill!
This bird has such a cute little face!
If you expand the photo below, you can see where the Red-Breasted Woodpecker gets its name.
Well, my little Goldfinches aren’t woodpeckers, but a funny thing happened yesterday morning….
The finches were making such a racket! I heard them lifting their voices (almost in a voice of desparation!) when I went outside. When I came back inside, I looked out the bedroom window, and the finches were nowhere in sight. As I looked around, I found out why……
Uh huh! Three of these enormous crows were just sitting in trees close to the house, as though bullying the smaller birds. I opened the window, and as soon as they saw it, the crows flew off, probably to annoy some little birds elsewhere!
I somehow found it humorous (and a little comforting) that my little bird friends need a little human intervention from time to time!
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I don’t call crows, crows… I call them 747′s! They only show up in our neighborhood on trash day. They sure know how to get into trash and make a mess!
Excellent set of photographs. I thought our green woodpecker was colourful, but your one wins hands down.
Terri, I remember when I lived in Buffalo, the crows would suddenly arrive from who knows where, and they would pull open bags of trash (those were the pre-”tote” days) and scatter it all around. It wasn’t unusual to see them sitting on top of trash bags, looking like “king of the heap”!
Thanks, Bill. I was so happy to get some photos of this cute little bird that weren’t his “backside”. He has a beautiful black and white “checkerboard” pattern on his back, but he is so pretty from the front, too!
Kae, keep Rochester ice free for me will ya? We are heading to Alabama for 3 weeks…my dear daddy died Wednesday morning. There is a picture of him up on my blog, and an even nicer one on embellishlife.blogspot.com.
Also, travel prayers and holding-it-together prayers would be nice. Rob left for Germany Wednesday and can’t make it back. He and my dad had a bond. As bad as I feel for me, worse for Robbie.
Thanks, dear friend.
He’s a very fine fellow indeed – I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a colourful bird in my garden.
Very beautiful — and great photos.