Thursday, January 13, 2011

The 13th day of the first month of the year of emergence

I am still working on the back yard buddy collection and yesterday I trapped two new additions to said collection.


He is not a new arrival and this image does not show his ruby crown which he holds up when excited. 

This next image is one from last year showing his crown.  He is only the size of a small canary.



The next participant in the "Feed me!  Feed me!" station is the red belly wood pecker.  Now you ask why is he called red belly when obviously his head is the most dramatic coloration.



And well you might ask, being some of the most astute readers on the entire blogosphere.  I don't know, except his belly does have a tinge of red.  I think that there was once a redheaded woodpecker who may well be extinct at this point.  Suffice to say, the books call him red belly and as we all know the books cannot be wrong.  Well, some text books used in our schools may be wrong.  By exclusion in the extreme if no other way.  But that's another battle which we will leave up to the re-writers of history and their own agendas.  See how easy it is to go from nature right into a rant of some sort..............sigh!


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