There's a zoo in our backyard!
We went over to the house yesterday to see the floors. They aren't finished yet, but the stain is on throughout the house. It looks wonderful; virtually like a brand new floor rather than one that's more than 60 years old.
The most interesting part of our visit didn't happen inside, however. Since we didn't want to walk on the floor while it didn't have any polyurethane down, we went in each exterior door and looked at what we could around the edges of the house. As we left the back door, we looked up into our enormous pecan tree. About 20 feet up we caught a glimpse of a red-headed woodpecker! As we watched him search for bugs underneath the bark, he flew right down to the crook in the tree not 10 feet from us.
Even better than seeing this bird was looking over to another branch and spotting 2 or 3 small striped birds acting very much like woodpeckers searching for bugs. They didn't have red heads though. It seems we have a whole woodpecker family including little baby wood peckers.
Just then a bright red cardinal flew across the backyard right in front of us and a group of tiny Finches high up in the pecan tree began making the most amazing noises.
All we can figure out about why we have so much wildlife in our backyard is that our pecan tree is the biggest tree on the block and has lots of fruit for animals to eat. Our cat is going to have so much fun watching out of windows.
The most interesting part of our visit didn't happen inside, however. Since we didn't want to walk on the floor while it didn't have any polyurethane down, we went in each exterior door and looked at what we could around the edges of the house. As we left the back door, we looked up into our enormous pecan tree. About 20 feet up we caught a glimpse of a red-headed woodpecker! As we watched him search for bugs underneath the bark, he flew right down to the crook in the tree not 10 feet from us.
Even better than seeing this bird was looking over to another branch and spotting 2 or 3 small striped birds acting very much like woodpeckers searching for bugs. They didn't have red heads though. It seems we have a whole woodpecker family including little baby wood peckers.
Just then a bright red cardinal flew across the backyard right in front of us and a group of tiny Finches high up in the pecan tree began making the most amazing noises.
All we can figure out about why we have so much wildlife in our backyard is that our pecan tree is the biggest tree on the block and has lots of fruit for animals to eat. Our cat is going to have so much fun watching out of windows.
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