A Day on Merganser Lake
I don’t normally keep flowers alive for very long so I was happy when this female hairy woodpecker stopped by to check out the blooms.
Hairy woodpecker stops to smell the flowers
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We have just enough local birds who when you add into the mix our migratory visitors it is never boring for bird lovers.
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Just wanted to let you know what happened in my backyard this morning. I have a nesting box and I knew that two chickadees were interested in it and had built a nest. This morning a male Red Bellied Woodpecker attacked the box and managed to open the front a little which exposed nesting material. After several chunks of stuff being removed he managed to pull out an egg which fell the the ground. After pecking around he picked up the whole egg and flew away.
I’ve never seen this before and wonder if this happens all the time. My box usually is abandoned every year and I always thought it was because of the cats waiting below. Cats are nowhere in my area now!
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Wow. Thanks for writing Val. I’ve never seen that before either. Great to hear from you.
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