Posted in Nature Study and Journaling
We have seen our new friend the woodpecker again today! And, to our surprise, we learned that we actually have 1 of each of these in our yard! Today we saw both of them come visit our feeder within the same 5 minutes!
In addition to these fellows with the red heads, we saw what I think is another woodpecker, but this one had no red on him that we noticed! He only had the black and white...kind of like stripes, almost spots on him. Anyone know about this fellow? I have yet to find a picture of him exactly, still looking!
UPDATE: I just got a picture of his head as he was eating! Does anyone know about this little bird friend? I only got a quick shot of his head as he was eating...so it's not the best picture, but maybe someone can identify this bird for us.
Today we are writing this poem in our nature journals and attempting to draw a woodpecker of our own!
Woodpecker
by Elizabeth Madox Roberts
The woodpecker pecked out
A little round hole
And made him a house
In a telephone pole.
One day when I watched
He poked out his head
And had on a hood
And a collar of red.
When the streams of rain
Pour out of the sky,
And the sparkles of lightning
Go flashing by,
And the big, big wheels
Of thunder roll,
He can snuggle back in
The telephone pole.
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