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Richville, MN - Ottertail Cty. I've been watching two Pileated Woodpeckers a male & a female for the = last few minutes. They've been delicately picking crabapples off the = tree in our front yard. They look ridiculuous because of the way they = flop on those slender branches while choosing just the right apple to = eat. The male seems to lean his head way back and flashes his wings at = her. Maybe he is just looking for an apple behind him without turning = his head and is losing his balance but it seems like a deliberate = attention-getting strategy to me. Has anyone else seen behavior like = this? As a bonus a male cardinal came and sat for a while in the bush next to = my window. I saw a female here last week but prior to that haven't seen = Cardinals in this yard for 2 years. Amy Drake ------=_NextPart_000_0009_01C708BF.904671E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2900.2963" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Richville, MN - Ottertail=20 Cty.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I've been watching two Pileated = Woodpeckers a male=20 & a female for the last few minutes. They've been delicately = picking=20 crabapples off the tree in our front yard. They look ridiculuous = because=20 of the way they flop on those slender branches while choosing just the = right=20 apple to eat. The male seems to lean his head way back and flashes = his=20 wings at her. Maybe he is just looking for an apple behind him = without=20 turning his head and is losing his balance but it seems like a = deliberate=20 attention-getting strategy to me. Has anyone else seen behavior = like=20 this?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>As a bonus a male cardinal came and sat = for a=20 while in the bush next to my window. I saw a female here last = week=20 but prior to that haven't seen Cardinals in this yard for 2 = years.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Amy Drake</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0009_01C708BF.904671E0--