SPRING ALARM

 This post is linked to World Bird Wednesday **

Please join us in saying good morning to Woody, who has been our alarm clock this Spring.  Our 'cottage' is situated with the living part of the house where we can look out on the canal, so our bedroom's on the street side… our "backyard".   Every morning for the last month or so, Woody has used this utility pole outside our window to drum out what's apparently his courtship ritual.  Sometimes even on the metal.  He'll sing along too!

I read that the louder the noise a woodpecker makes the more it attracts the female.  He tries, but he's still up there alone every morning, so apparently something's not working real well for him.     

We don't really mind this kind of alarm clock at all.  It's a lot better than the kind we used when we had to get to work.   Sometimes we just go back to sleep listening as he keeps trying.  

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 This bird is about the size of a robin — so I'm guessing maybe a red-bellied woodpecker, because the red goes all the way down the back of his head.  (There are woodsy areas in the wetlands behind the houses across the street from us.)

** Do go visit Dave at WORLD BIRD WEDNESDAY  – admire his pictures and read what he has to say (it is always worthwhile)  and so are the links to other wonderful bird blogs.