We get tenants

Recently I’ve noticed a lot of wood chips in the back yard, even to the point of finding them caught in the car’s windshield wipers of a morning.  At first I thought it was from the carpenter bees, which I’ve got in the firewood rack, but there were too many chips for less than a hive full of bees to produce, and carpenter bees are solitary.

Friday I solved the mystery.  As I got home from work and out of the car, I happened to look up and catch a red-bellied woodpecker hanging onto the highest branch of The Shedding Tree, right at the edge of a big hole he’d drilled.  Two other big holes further up the same branch suggest that he’s been using the tree, which is full of borers and carpenter ants, as his feeder for some time, or perhaps that some of his friends have moved in as well.

 

The crew cleaned up after a Saturday night fire damaged the fnord center.

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I'm an elderly tech analyst, living in Texas but not of it, a cantankerous and venerable curmudgeon. I'm yer SOB grandpa who has NO time for snot-nosed, bad-mannered twerps.
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