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Showing posts with label woodpecker. Show all posts

Saturday, January 9, 2010

Hairy Woodpecker

Hairy woodpecker at our feeder. 

After more than a year away, 20 minutes after I put food out for the birds, they were back in abundance.  It is clear that mixed flocks travel together, so when someone makes a discovery, it goes back to tell the others.  But how was our renewed feeding discovered?  Smells?  Does someone make the rounds of the old places on the off chance?  Sheer luck?