Experience Experiments Killing Woodpeckers 
10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2022
This was where I set up my bird feeders, just one at first, then expanding as everyone expressed delight in seeing the Carolina Chickadees, Dark-eyed Juncos, and Downy Woodpeckers. I picked up a Downy Woodpecker, an every-day visitor. I was shocked when I found the first body, a female Towhee. The window silhouettes were gone.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 10, 2020
Every other year or so, we experience the lightest of frosts, nothing killing, and our warmest temperatures (in the 80s and 90s) occur in late spring. Golden-fronted Woodpeckers apparently like blackberries, too. This year, that pair of Golden-fronted Woodpeckers are big customers as well. One of our birdiest plants.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 12, 2024
It was an exciting experience, though a remarkably chilly one, as winters in Castile and León can be very cold. At the time we were looking, without success, for White-backed Woodpeckers. They will also kill any water birds they can capture, from Kingfishers to Mallard.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 18, 2020
These irruptive visitors to T&T always are a pleasure to experience. A Lineated Woodpecker banged its head against a dry branch. We counted seven of these alluring birds while I killed my camera battery. Before we got to our destination, I pulled the car over to investigate an almost deafening twittering. Turquoise Tanager.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 27, 2018
This is why the Yellow Warblers and Baltimore Orioles of summer don’t linger to experience October 31st, and even late fall migrants like kinglets and sparrows move to slightly warmer regions. Dressed to kill, the deadly Bat Falcon eats more than bats. It’s delicious to the eye is what it is! JUST SCARY. Bicolored Hawk.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
I don’t really know – from my own experience with school bullies or from Jack London’s novels? Lucky and his instructor were successful in bluffing this particular bear, yet the very next year in the same area, Hoshino was killed by a Brown Bear. How did I know that? “Understanding Animal Behaviour” by Rory Putman.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2014
Female Imperial Woodpecker in flight, Mexico, a still from recently found film made by William Rhein, p. Eskimo Curlew, Passenger Pigeon, Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Bachman’s Warbler, Carolina Parakeet—these are names that echo mightily through birding histories and even some recent field guides. These are not the words of a scientist.
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