Even though we are well into Autumn, and the 'quiet season' in the yard, there is still a lot of activity, even a few hummer stragglers.
Had to venture out and track down the tapping, as the call was unfamiliar. This is the Downy Woodpecker, the smallest of the woodpecker family.
Set the sprinkler going in the early morning garden, and they will come.
Water drip and fresh running, and even the Northern Mockingbird will come around.
This straggler was visiting the salvia and the plumbago today.
The string of rubies at the neck tell this one as a maturing male; no oxymoron here!
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