When Birds Attack

Fredericksburg.com reports:

All David Martin wanted was an iced coffee.

He had to endure assault and battery–or more appropriately, assault and birdery–to get it.

Martin’s attacker, a mockingbird, was on him the minute the 17-year-old exited his car Thursday in front of Caribou Coffee in Central Park.

Red-bellied Woodpecker

I notice some woodpeckers occasionally on a hickory tree in the yard.  Birds can be difficult to photograph without a powerful zoom as they like to fly away when approached.  I setup my automatic motion sensing camera to see what I could come up with.  The light is not too good in this shot, but the zebra-backed pattern of the bird matches the description in my Birds of Virginia Field Guide by Stan Tekiela.

Red-bellied Woodpecker