We love the large pine tree outside our living room window, which is the center of attention. I placed a suet cage right next to its trunk. There are a steady stream of woodpeckers mostly downy who feed on the suet. The squirrels also come.
The downy woodpeckers travel up and down its trunk seemingly at attention. Only one bird is allowed to feed on the suet at one time. The others make sure of that. Sometimes there is as much as two or three downy woodpeckers on the trunk of the tree at one time.
Occasionally a red bellied woodpecker makes its entrance. The sight of it makes me gasp. It is a bigger woodpecker with an one inch red stripe that goes from the back of the top of its head to its nape of its neck (at least the male looks that way). I had never seen one before and now they are regular visitors.
The white breasted nuthatch also likes the suet as well as the Carolina wrens who I have fallen in love with. I did not know wrens could get that big. Occasionally a cardinal will alight on one of its branches briefly.
We get occasional visits by the brown creeper who has a long curved beak and is a small brown colored bird who appropriately creeps up and down the pine’s trunk. And these are only the birds we remember seeing.
This year a large branch was brought down by an ice storm which became our Christmas tree when I cut off part of it. We used the rest of it for our tree. It was one of the most beautiful trees we ever had lit up by several hundred multicolored lights. Both of us love this tree and consider it to be our friend.
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