Day 210 - a Year by the Sea

July 29, 2007 by OrientSee.

This is a Downy Woodpecker. He is busy looking for food and quarreling with his mate who was in the next tree. There was a lot of display and bickering between eating. His red cap is a little worse for wear by this time of the year. Woodpeckers were a big discovery for me. After all, I live next to a major airport next to the ocean and next to a marsh. I just never expected to see a woodpecker unless I was in the “woods”, a real wild place. Then I began to appreciate the gift of living next to Belle Isle Marsh and connecting with nature. I expected to see herons when I first started looking but never a woodpecker. I guess that I’ll have to start keeping a look out for penguins next.

Ciao!

-Jorge

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