I was out early again to beat the heat. I was able to observe several birds
having breakfast. The blue plate special today was cicadas. The tufted
titmouse used its feet to pin a cicada on a limb, just like it does a black oil
sunflower seed. Pecked hard several times to gain entry, like tapping a
soft-boiled egg. Watched two purple martins swoop at a cicada right above the
tree line and one snatched it in mid-air, never missing a wing beat. Several
peewees were working a tree along the driveway to gather theirs. A red-headed
woodpecker ate one on a branch in the open and I watched the cicada’s
dismembered wings glint in the sunshine as they slowly spun to the ground. I
had steel-cut oatmeal when I got back to the house.
Joyce Bender, northern Franklin County================NOTES TO
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