No real IBWO hunting, just a relaxing morning on an easy trail. Many birds, though there were no new species to add to the Little Big Year list. Woodpeckers were active, as is usual in these woods:
Despite having walked this 3-mile trail more than a dozen times, I still notice things I had not before. This sweetbay is only about twenty yards from a major fork, and is in a bottom that I usually take a lot of time in when passing through; and yet:
Flicker family meeting.
Despite having walked this 3-mile trail more than a dozen times, I still notice things I had not before. This sweetbay is only about twenty yards from a major fork, and is in a bottom that I usually take a lot of time in when passing through; and yet:
I had not noticed this cavity before.
Looks to be about right for either a Red-bellied Woodpecker, or a Flicker.
A slow hike of a forest is incredibly time-consuming, but what may be revealed by such a passage makes it well worth the hours spent.
Rose mallow.
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