I thought I saw. . .

a Blue Woodpecker for a second!

I was taking a coffee break from hanging new rods, drapes, and all the hardware that goes with them when I looked out over the cup rim at the suet feeders. For a split second my mind tricked me into seeing a Blue Woodpecker working away at the suet.


You now how sometimes your mind sees something a bit different from what is actually on the other side of your eyes? Well, it was one of "those" kinds of sightings. In the split seconds that are normally spend on identifying a common bird, the "ole brain" comes to the perfectly wrong solution!



I guess the issue wasn't the fact that I "mis-saw" a very common bird as much as it was the fact that it was doing an uncommon thing - at least at my feeders.

In the end, I laughed at my mind's error and realized that my Blue Woodpecker, was just a Blue Jay acting very "woodpeckerish" at the suet feeder.

Being omnivores, I guess they too need to fuel up on suet during the cold days of winter.