The firmiana malayana or mata lembu, remains here in testimony to man's care-less-ness - its tree had since been felled. Let not the birds leave too.

Tuesday, 23 March 2021

Playtime for a young woodpecker

 While Mama Orange-backed Woodpecker was busy preening, guess what the young one was up to?





Annoying, taunting, intimidating the Banded Woodpecker in his home?!  Or simply being playful.  All the young one did was flew to the rotten trunk, started to drill behind the nest, flew off, could be heard calling close by, then returned to drill again.





However, at the last disturbance, the Banded Woodpecker did emerge from its hole and fly off, and that was it.  There was no more drilling and the young Orange-backed Woodpecker too disappeared.



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