Bird Watching: Daily Pics #94, 1 by Elphaba

Elphaba wrote:
I'm so sad this morning. I went to take my neighbor's trash out and I saw that she had some nice pieces of wood stacked there. Then I realized that it was the branch that had the Downy wooodpecker nest in it. I looked in her trash and there was a tupperware container with four perfect downy babies in it.

Here's a picture that I took the day before yesterday of the Downy flying away from the nest. The nest cavity was right behind him. That whole branch came down and broke into pieces. I was afraid that was going to happen. The squirrels kept leaping on it from another tree. They probably knocked it down.