The Beat Goes On*

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These days we’re likely to hear the “drumming” of woodpeckers, as they stake their territories with bills rapidly tapping midst the still bare and budding trees.

Here, a male Red-bellied woodpecker fuels up on his neighbor’s pheasant food.

*West End, Fishers Island

From the Field, Field Note, Justine Kibbe, April 22, 2019