late night birdposting (i have insomnia)
weather: 🌫️➡️☀️ may gray heat wave
critters: sulphurs, mourning cloaks, woodpeckers, quails
two quails flew over me when i scared them on accident. it was the closest i'd ever physically stood to wild quails
and i'm not sure why i expected them to make wiwiwiwiwi sounds in flight like mourning doves, but they didn't. i'd seen them a million times before, i'd heard them say 'chi-ca-go' at long distances--until today, i'd never been close enough to hear that their flight just sounds like flapping
the individual i saw clearly was a male. we watched each other for a long while before he and his lady decided to get out of there. his decorative bobble was majestic
it seems like there are more woodpeckers in this area over the past few years. i'm sure this is a sign of deep insoluble environmental problems because the only changes allowed to happen here now are the ugly ones that hurt, so i will simply not think about it
there were two woodpeckers hanging out at the top of an old wooden phone pole. sitting on it, not clinging to its side like they would to a tree, and they were grooming their feathers
the only thing i don't like about woodpeckers is how every species looks the same. nobody @ me about this; i am faceblind to woodpeckers. black and white woodpecker with a red cap? groundbreaking