Lane looked out the window and said,
"Look!"
A Pileated Woodpecker was walking around on the ground
eating.
I guess even woodpeckers like to vary their diet, ground
bugs instead of tree insects.
We caught a glimpse of the Downy Woodpecker pair but I
couldn't get a picture of them.
Out of about a dozen photos snapped through the window
screen, 3 ignored the screen.
She walked up the tree after I took this but all the pictures
focused on the window screen instead of the bird.
By the time I remembered that the screen in the front room
does not cover the upper half of the window, she flew toward the pines just as I looked
out.
I wish I'd gotten a photo when she spread her wings and
flew up into a pecan tree before she finally flew away. I rarely see one with wings spread. They fly like a wild
turkey, hardly flapping at all once they get going.
