Bird Watching: Most Disappointing Shot Vol.5, 1 by f_chisolm

f_chisolm wrote:
Headless Red-head. I guess I am getting old and my reflexes are getting slow. This woodpecker and I played a game for awhile. He would stop pecking and pose perfect just long enough for me to click. But his head would be back in the hole. Finally I gave up and went to the next red-head on the next tree. I have never seen any place with such a large population of woodpeckers. There are dozens of Red-heads there. Each declaring their territory. A lot of quearking and showing out anytime any kind of bird got within their territory. It did not matter if those birds were sparrows, cardinals, phoebes, kinglets, sapsuckers, downeys, red-bellies, pileated or other red-heads; they were ready to defend their trees from one and all. They even queark if ducks, egrets or herons flew by them. This place is criss-crossed with old river beds. With cypress and tupelo in and near the water, oaks on the dry ground and pines on narrow ridges that never flood. All this within just a few yards. There are a lot of old dead trees and huge pine and white oak.