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Two Peckers One Hole

November 11, 2019 — 28 Comments

F/8.0, 1/250, ISO 320.

Hispaniolan Woodpeckers

How do crazy people get through the forest?

They take the psycho path.

Interesting Fact: The Hispaniolan Woodpecker is sufficiently abundant to be considered an agricultural pest in some areas, on account of it feeding in fruit orchards, although it also regularly consumes insects and tree sap. It nests in tree-cavities and breeds in loose colonies of up to 20 pairs. ( https://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/Species-Account/nb/species/hiswoo1/overview )

I Am Your Evil Knocker!

July 1, 2019 — 6 Comments

F/7.1, 1/200, ISO 320.

Hispaniolan Woodpecker

Two friends are talking:

“My ex updated her status on Facebook to standing on the edge of a cliff. ”

“So I poked her.”

Interesting Fact: Unlike most woodpeckers, the Hispaniolan woodpecker is a social species that takes advantage of having a large number of individual adult birds in the colony to protect a nesting bank or tree. There may be twenty pairs of birds in a colony, with several nesting in the same tree. The nests are excavated in trunks and branches, and discarded holes are reused by parrots, parakeets, trogons, the Antillean piculet and the golden swallow. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispaniolan_woodpecker )