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Steve’s Bird Of The Day #16.
Hello everyone! Here we are with another one of our woodpecker species. This is the “pileated woodpecker”, and this one is a big bird, a little larger than a crow. It’s a spectacular bird with it’s large red crest which both male and female have, this one is molting a bit. This is the male which can be told by it’s red “whiskers” stretching from the base of it’s bill to it’s cheek. The female is black in that area. These big birds can dig out some huge holes in trees going after grubs, like this one has found, and ants. Woodpeckers, however, never kill a tree, it’s the insects that the woodpecker is trying to get that kill the tree. I have seen huge holes, more than 20 years old, made by this woodpecker species in large pines and yet the pine is still growing healthy. Well, I hope you all have a great day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2021 Steve McLeod.
Art In Nature #6.
Hi everyone and welcome back to our Art in Nature series! I think it has been a little longer than it should be since our last post in this series, but here we are with a mix of winter and summer to enjoy. I like to look at little things mostly for this series, they are the things that we would oftentimes miss as we go out for a walk through the forest, or park, or even around our neighborhood.
It isn’t necessary to be out in a wilderness or park setting to see some wonderful works of art in nature. Sometimes just a walk down the street will do it and we can see some amazing things if we just take the time to slow down a bit to see these beautiful things. They can even be found right in your own yard at times, so just go out for a little while and see what sort of art you can find in your area.
Freezing rain, though a terrible and dangerous thing, can sometimes produce some amazing art in nature. So can a snowstorm, though usually we are too busy digging out to look around for any artistic things that often abound at such times.
Frost can produce some of the most amazing beauty found in nature. But so can the lowly weeds that most people don’t really enjoy. But I hope you enjoy these pictures I’m sharing. Have a great day everyone and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2021 Steve McLeod.
