12-08-14 Field Note

12-08-14 Field Note

December 11, 2014

Jeff Clarke's Field Note details winter seeds, road closures, and pileated woodpeckers.

Field Note Barbed Wire, Pileated Woodpeckers, Winter Seeds, Road Closures

A lone wood duck hides among planted bull rushes in the Clubhouse Pond. Mallards, teals, golden eyes, and many other species of ducks use the pond to refuel on their long winter migration.

This pair of pileated woodpeckers reside in the Clubhouse Floodplain. They visit dead cottonwoods and extract frozen insects from within. On cold, quiet winter days, their calls and pecks let everyone know the floodplain still harbors life.