[va-bird] Re: Torpid Red-headed Woodpecker

Cool!

Sounds just like the event that got Roger Tory Peterson into birding. The only 
difference was that his bird was a Flicker.

Bart


In a message dated 1/26/2005 2:13:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, John H Dalmas 
<jtdalmas@xxxxxxxx> writes:

>I received an interesting letter and photograph from Charles Tisinger,
>who lives in Madison Heights near Lynchburg.  He wrote to me about an
>observation that he had made in early January.  He was out for a short
>walk in his yard, when he spotted a bright red color on the trunk of a
>nearby tree.  Closer inspection revealed that it was a bird with its head
>turned around and the beak tucked into the feathers on the back.  At
>first he thought that maybe the bird had died while clinging there and
>somehow maintained a kind of ?death grip? on the bark.  After taking a
>photograph, he touched the bird lightly on the back.  As his finger
>grazed the feathers, the bird appeared to wake up and then it flew away.
>He sent me the photograph and it was an adult Red-headed Woodpecker. (I
>have the photo in an electronic form if anyone is interested.)
>Thelma Dalmas
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