I live in Ponce Inlet at the end of a street that backs up to a greenway. My new neighbors tell me that I will see wildlife here like I have never seen it before. It’s been two weeks and so far, nothing.
Photo by Debbie Boyd / A woodpecker drawn to sight of ceiling fan inside home.So, it’s Saturday afternoon and I am home alone trying to write a blog and the only sound is the movement of the keys on my keyboard as I type and delete trying to come up with the perfect topic. Suddenly I hear tapping and rattling and it sounds as though someone is working on my house.
I go to the door and there’s no one there. In fact, I don’t see anyone doing anything in the entire neighborhood.
So I go back to my desk, compose myself and restart the blogging process. I no sooner start and the tapping and rattling begin. As I head to the front door, I pass a bedroom and I find the culprit – a red headed woodpecker perched on a screen that I imagine he’s moved to suit his needs – rattling the screen and tapping on the window all while appearing to watch my ceiling fan.
The fan rolls in its lazy circle; the woodpecker bounces on the screen and taps on the window like he’s either in love with the ceiling fan or in sync with it. No matter how you look at it, it’s weird.
I grab my camera and take a photo because hey, no one will believe this. I get within two feet of the window before he is frightened and flies away.
This, by the way did nothing for my ego as I would like to think I have a little more appeal than a ceiling fan. But I digress, he’s been back six times since I started writing this and at this point I no longer consider him wildlife. He’s a fair-feathered friend named Woody.
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