While I find other woodpeckers in the uplands as well as along Cedar Creek, Red-headed Woodpeckers stick to the bottomland floodplain along the Creek. Adult birds of both sexes have the distinctive red head and black and white bodies, however immature Red-headed Woodpeckers aren’t red at all. Neither are they black and bright white. Plumage…
Posted April 7, 2020. Good News: This year wild Atamasco lilies are more abundant and widespread along Cedar Creek than anytime in more than 45 years of my walking these woods. I suppose our wet winter and several floods are responsible for this explosion of beauty. Nevertheless, we’ve had wet years and floods before, but…
February 14, 2020 Woods walk today with birding friends Steve McInnis and John Ebert. Highlights of the day were beautifully sunlit views of two soaring Red-tailed Hawks, Cedar Waxwings, and a Blue-headed Vireo. Overall we reported 33 species and 161 individuals to Cornell University’s ebird database. So far, the life-time list for our place, Horse…