at the top of this tree. It's hard to see, unless you blow it up - but it was something I've never seen before. All summer long, a pair of woodpeckers have been using this palm tree - opposite our house - as a food source. They were still going backwards and forwards this morning - I'm imagining that their young must be outside the nest by now, but still being fed - or maybe this is Brood Two. Suddenly, two large crows appeared, with a great deal of cark-carking, and latched themselves to the sides of the tree, apparently feeding on whatever little bugs the woodpeckers like. They were being dive-bombed by the said woodpeckers, screeching away. Was this real feeding, on the part of the crows? I know they're omnivores, so a tasty insect is going to be as good as anything else. Or were they merely antagonizing, or threatening, the woodpeckers? They stayed about fifteen antagonistic minutes of high avian drama.
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