Wednesday, March 18, 2009

I caught the culprit......

We have a really cool tree in our back yard atop what I call the "grassy knoll". And its seriously high up there. I always found it strange that my kids didn't want any kind of tree house up there, because seriously - that would've been the FIRST thing I did when we moved it. But I digress. A couple weeks ago some neighborhood kidlets "discovered" the tree and decided to trespass, I just kept my beady little eyes on them, and as the muttlings didn't bark (some watchdogs they are-a totally different story there) I let it pass. WELLLLLL!!! A FEW days ago I heard banging and thought the little trespassers decided they would make a tree house, and when I investigated found NO HUMANS around. What I did find was HIM-Mr. Woodpecker just banging away. He was on the ground, and as you can't see there were a TON of crunchy leaves between him and me. As most of you may know, I'm not the quietest or coordinated person around, so I'm attempting to creep up on him a bit at a time. I did rather good, until he got "wind" of me bwahahaha and flew off . Caught him another tree (obviously not the cool one). He was a very intent bird so I'm thinking he'll be back. I'll be practicing my sneaking on crunchy leaves til then bwahahahaha!

9 comments:

vtpuggirl said...

hehe, that's a great story! Hope your tree remains unharmed.

Anonymous said...

Oh, too funny!! That noisy bird! Good luck with your silent crunching, lol. :)

Kate said...

there must be something good in there for him to go after it!

Renee Lamb said...

too funny! great pic of the booger too!

{Brooke} said...

Ahaha...have to watch out for those redheads...they're trouble makers! Great pic!!

Lisa Dorsey said...

LOL love that story! great picture!

Anonymous said...

Great story...great pictures, too :)

Stacey Michaud said...

Cute story and cool photos!

Lorrie said...

pretty bird, but OMG they are so loud, they drive me INSANE!!!!!