You buy them food, keep their water supply clean, keep quiet in your garden to avoid disturbing them, and when you pop out with your camera they just turn away from you.
I've come for you, the vulture does say,
As they do in that Edgar Allen Poe way,
I'll sit right here and wait for some lunch,
On your rotting bones and flesh shall I munch
Oh wait, I'm wrong and you're not dying alone?
That smell's just your brand new cologne?
A brown winged female pileated woodpecker has been coming regularly to the feeder. She stands out because usually, pileated woodpeckers have black wings feathers. I don't know the significance of the brown feathers on her wings, but at least they help me tell her apart from the other female pileated woodpeckers. #bird#birding#birdsofmastodon#birdphotography#nature#woodpecker#HoosierMast
This #GreaterSpottedWoodpecker#nestling has figured out that the food comes from outside the hole, it just hasn’t plucked up the courage to go find it…
Image captured using remote controlled camera.
In parts of the United Kingdom, seeing a single magpie is considered a bad omen. However, saluting the magpie by tipping your hat and giving it a friendly greeting as a sign of respect can ward off any bad luck that could result from the encounter. #FolkloreSunday