Woodpeckers

While I was up at the stable going on a trail ride, I saw like, 4 or 5 woodpeckers flying around, either with their young or courting. It was neat seeing so many!

The Lord God Bird

My sketchbook is an old birding book, and had this fantastic page in it illustrating the Ivory-Billed woodpecker , also known as the "Lord God Bird" or the "Good God Bird" from the exclamations of awed onlookers, since it's a huge species of woodpecker. It was thought extinct from 1944 until 2005, when there were a few confirmed sightings around Arkansas.