Caron
Birdwatcher Newbie..:)
About 20 feet from our back door we have a raven with a natural spring and woods beyond. I was sitting in the adirondacks over coffee admiring the view and listening to the soft song of the chickidees and goldfinches when I heard this hard loud pounding...too loud for the woodpeckers I knew of and thought it was a deer rubbing his antlers. When I got the binoculars to see in the direction of hense it came, I spotted his magnificient red 'comb'! What an amazing bird!!! I was alone and cameraless and too afraid to run to get it in fear he would be gone. I got to witness him for about 15 minutes hammering on a fallen pine before he took to flight of which was a wonderful view as well..