Volume #59/ The Rainforest Spring!

Teeny, in the Sierras during last summer, there were numerous forest fires that have impacted many birds species. The concern now is for the forest service to not take dead trees from the inflicted areas because of the avian ecosystem.

Selectively take the big dead trees, and it will impact a whole host of woodpeckers, including hairy and white-headed and even black-backed woodpeckers. The trees attract insects that provide food for the woodpeckers, and sites where they can excavate nesting cavities, which, in turn, provide homes for other birds, such as mountain bluebirds.

So far I haven't heard or seen the birds during the Spring season, but during the summer months, the sound of woodpeckers foraging for food can be heard echoing through the forest. Sounds so neat!

I Just love birding stories. I'm really new at it but learning. I would love to install a hummingbird feeder but the pidgeons and seagulls would take it over! I'm 11 stories high and nothing but crows, gulls and pidgeons are around here. Still, they're birds and I love them too!

There's plenty of hummingbirds though, and i've noticed smaller wrens beginning to nest on the property trees, plus a Robbin built a nest on one of the pine tree branches from across the road! Good news!

pwayfarer, nature is marvelous! )