Dear Reader,
George and Alice make me smile everyday. George has been courting Alice, but she's been making him work hard for her attention. It's the male red-bellied woodpecker's job to carve a round hole in a partially decayed tree, and then excavate down inside the limb around 11 to 14 inches for the nest. The female goes inside, and if she approves, she comes out of the nest and 'rat-tat-tats' on the tree near the "front door" of the nest, announcing she likes what she sees.
Alice may have given her approval, but I think she must have decided she'd like a bigger master suite or an additional bathroom, because George has been working hard on the nest again. It's hilarious. He goes down into the nest, chips away at the wood, then sticks his head out the hole of the nest, shakes his head back and forth and a "sand storm" of sawdust falls to the ground. That boy is definitely in love. He's been working non-stop for the past couple of days. But yesterday, I saw Alice popping her head out of their new home all day long. She looked content and I'm finally assured that I'll see babies soon.
Sitting on my side porch, binoculars handy when I want to admire George and Alice close up--watching them makes me feel calm in the midst of the chaos and never fails to make me smile.
What's making you smile these days? This is my address:
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Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
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