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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