This little Woodpecker may be smarter than our first assumption about his choice of telephone poles. Although, you just never know where a termite might be crawling around. Then again, perhaps he was just trying to communicate.
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Great shot! I love hearing woodpeckers in the distance, hammering away at a tree or pole! 🙂
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We do also as long as the trees belong to someone else. They can destroy a tree fairly quickly.
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I’ve been living in Japan for the past two years and we have these beautiful Pygmy Woodpeckers. The males are grey-brown with a small red patch at the nape. The females are a little bigger with mottled grey-brown, white feathers. Oddly enough, they prefer dead or decayed trees to live trees. I love to hear them knocking away.
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They are beautiful! And they do go after trees that have problems, usually an insect infestation.
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