Don Ferguson Jr.
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Red-Bellied Woodpecker caught my eye.
Don
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Asher Kelman
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Fabulous!
Over the years, Don you’ve met with this friend different poses each time. This one leaves no doubt as to what is going to happen to the tree!
Asher
Over the years, Don you’ve met with this friend different poses each time. This one leaves no doubt as to what is going to happen to the tree!
Asher
Don Ferguson Jr.
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Thanks, Asher. It is amazing how much wildlife is in this local swamp.
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Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Don,
What is amazing about life is the complex overlapping ecosystems. That is not merely a woodpecker on a tree.
It’s a woodpecker on a particular tree with lichen or some other plant and for sure myriads of nesting insects and other life feeding on them.
The bird is not just a flying animal, but each surface, inside and outside its body, has a balanced community of microbes unique to that region and commanding control systems within bird.
Likely as not, particular gut bacteria influence the woodpecker’s selection choose of beetles to optimize the survival of that microbe!
Asher
What is amazing about life is the complex overlapping ecosystems. That is not merely a woodpecker on a tree.
It’s a woodpecker on a particular tree with lichen or some other plant and for sure myriads of nesting insects and other life feeding on them.
The bird is not just a flying animal, but each surface, inside and outside its body, has a balanced community of microbes unique to that region and commanding control systems within bird.
Likely as not, particular gut bacteria influence the woodpecker’s selection choose of beetles to optimize the survival of that microbe!
Asher