These days I lead a calm life. I been there and done some things. I am a mostly happy guy.
Still, sometimes I see something that stops my heart.
I am on the porch playing Kitty Wells too loud and way off saw a ?
20 years back when I moved here had a Red-headed Wood Pecker guarding my porch. I had put suet in a cedar tree I had mounted on my deck. He believed that was his. Each Winter he returned until he did not. That was 15 years back.
They are in severe decline due to habitat loss.
Today as we near Summer, way out saw one near the top of a dead tree? That could not be. (My eyes are good). I got a quick photo to confirm.
Yes, I do have a good lens and sometimes can hold the camera steady if I am on my ass with beer.
I enlarged, and I was right. It aint a great photo, but anyone can ID from this.
Imagine, he/she might be here in "Summer"? for ???
I aint easily amused, but "Be still my heart" if he is not just passing by.
Yeah, things that amuse me these days are not what I would have paid any attention to at 30.
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