Thursday, May 10, 2012

Woodpecker

We were surprised to see an Olive-backed woodpecker high up on one of the trees, working hard on the huge sturdy stem. I reckon that the tree must be grateful to the woodpecker for eating up worms & parasites residing on it...

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My version of a photograph looked really blurry. As such, I've attached a professionally taken photograph of the woodpecker by Mr Paul Huang:
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There are many breeds of woodpecker. For those of you who are curious as to how some of the other breeds in the family looked like, kindly visit Mr Paul Huang's website at http://www.naturestops.com/. Click on the "Birds" & type in "woodpecker" in the search engine.

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