TREE LEAPERS AND FLYERS

By Marilyn Armstrong on 07/31/2021 • ( 6 )

We have an old tree in the back just behind the deck. It has been slowly fading over the past few years. Last year, it must have picked up some kind of boring insect. A slew of woodpeckers went to work on it. And this year, I notice that the tree looks a little healthier and the woodpeckers have lost interest.

**This is the favorite tree of birds and squirrels – but it’s showing its age**

**Had to cut off one branch. It used to shade the deck, but had lost all its leaves**

What lives or lived in it?

**One of the many woodpeckers — this is a Downy Woodpecker — who worked on getting all the bugs out of the tree**

**Red-Bellied Woodpecker high in the old tree**

**They live in the tree, but they like to eat our food. I believe we have a prize-winning spread on our deck**

**On a branch next to the deck — an orange lady Cardinal**

Good-bye July! This is my second summer hiding from COVID. I do hope we find a way to convince the unvaccinated to get shots. I’d like to have a little more of our life back!

‹ LITTLE CHATS IN THE KITCHEN

ANOTHER NEARLY COVID SUMMER ›

Categories: #animals, #Birds, #Photography, #Squirrel, Anecdote, square, Wildlife, Woodpeckers

Tags: #Photography, #TreeSquare, birds, Marilyn Armstrong, old tree, Squirrels, Trees

BeckyB

07/31/2021 • 01:08

Yay for woodpeckers bring healthiness back to a tree! What a second strange July we have all had, here’s to a better late summer

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Marilyn Armstrong
07/31/2021 • 13:46

All we can do it hope at this point. I’m so frustrated by these idiots who refuse to be vaccinated because there might be “side effects” eventually. How about immediate side effects — like death?

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lifelessons

07/31/2021 • 00:22

Great shots today, Marilyn. I especially loved the 5th and the 7th.

Marilyn Armstrong
07/31/2021 • 13:46

Thank you! I wanted to at least get the tree-lovers in here somewhere. After all, for them trees aren’t just pretty. They are HOME.

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