brewmaster15
05-12-2023, 09:02 PM
A few years ago we got hit with a small tornado out here in my area..It really wrecked alot of trees. On a pond I visit alot there was a stand of white pine trees that now pretty much a pile of busted up rotting wood. Kind of sad but mother nature wastes nothing. I was hoping I would see some good woodpeckers or maybe osprey sitting on them when I visited today. That was not the case. What I did get was bugs everywhere. My timing was not great I thought. All that dead wood was loaded with termites and I was there to witness the queens being pushed from the nests and out into the wild blue yonder.There were just termites streaming out of wood everywhere. Gross right? well maybe I guess it would be if you weren't ok with bugs. Those termite queens though were a literal feast for the area birds though. I got to witness ovenBirds, American Robins, Eastern kingbirds ( a fly catcher), Grey Catbirds, and even Blue Jays going after them. Most memorable was the BlueJay.It was just sitting on an old log and going to town..
Bon appetite..
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Bon appetite..
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