Wildlife, Unscripted

A Downy Woodpecker pauses while listening for life beneath the tree bark.

American Red squirrels.

When you didn’t ask for an audience, but you got one anyway.

Generally Life is good.

Female Downy Woodpecker and Male Northern Flicker in the Beau Park

A female Downy Woodpecker is taking a short break from probing bark for insects. 

This Flicker appeared from nowhere, perched on the tree for a few minutes. His beak was dirty.  He is certainly probed bark somewhere else.

Generally, life is good!

 

A Visitor in My Gardern

While watering my garden this morning I heard a gentle noise  as someone was drumming on the wood.  I looked around trying to understand where the noise was coming from and saw a Downy Woodpecker on our pine tree. He was so close that I could touch him.

To grab my camera took a few minutes hoping that the Downy Woodpecker would be still there.  And he was!  

The Woodpecker was drumming at slow rate, ten-fifteen taps per second but frequently the Woodpecker paused, just for a few seconds and those seconds were a blessing, I could capture a few shots of this hardworking guy.

Generally, life is good!