Here it is scouring the ground by the feeder with another of our favorites, a male Cardinal:
It looks as if it found some!
We lost our internet on Friday afternoon, May 3rd and just got it back yesterday, so need to catch up over a couple of the past rainy-ish days around here.
Oooh, the Orchard Oriole; I posted a (I think) non-breeding male recently...
David was able to get a few more photos of one of the neighborhood beavers, down by the creek. Fascinating creatures!
Around here, of course, a couple of our "pet" darlings made appearances, now that we have some natural patches of wild flowers and grasses (known to the untrained eye as "weeds") near the forest that we are "taming" for our little furry shy friends, so that they have some cover to hide in. I can't blame them for being shy, seeing the large birds of prey that are about!
Dylan, the rabbit, is enjoying David's nature-friendly landscaping so he can sneak out from the forest and grab some seeds from the ground and munch on some greens.
I absolutely love Dylan's mouth in this picture (below), as he's munching.
Another of our friends, Percy the Possum.
No, he doesn't use hair gel, it was rainy.
He also loves seeds, but needs a napkin:
Now about those woodpecker storage wars...
Reggie, the Red-headed Woodpecker, has been seen around here, but always at a distance...until recently! He has now given in to temptation and coming to our feeders for some scoff!
I'm thrilled to see it nearby now, and they are year-round residents here. The are 7 - 10" in length. They have a red head and neck; mostly black and white, with large white wing patches. Seeing it in flight is nothing short of stunning, especially watching it fly into the forest...you can't really see the black as it's soaring, but you see all this white floating in the sky from its body and wings.
Several species of woodpeckers have a habit of storing food for future consumption; our Red-headed and Red-bellied Woodpeckers both share this trait. It all got rather interesting when I noticed Reggie, the Red-headed Woodpecker, take to the other feeder and find what appears to be a favorite spot for storing some seeds, right here, under that part of the feeder that is separating from the base:
See him doing it for yourself, in this video:
Cyril, who has been living with us for some time with Sylvia, our Red-bellied Woodpeckers, enjoys this particular spot for his food storage (which happens to be holding the seed tray that Reggie above is pictured on).
Yesterday afternoon, what did I witness but Cyril scampering up the post after Reggie left the area, to Reggie's favorite storage spot and stealing his seeds! He ate some and also took them down to his own favorite spot and hammered them into the crevices.
Apparently, Reggie is no dummy however! This morning I saw him scurrying down to Cyril's favorite spot and doing the same to him! But...I guess it's not stealing if you're getting your own stuff back! Cyril caught him red-handed (or would that be red-headed?) though and gave him a telling off, sending him on his way...for now!
Until next time...
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