The Birds and the "B" Key

My husband works in software. Today was a "system test" day, so he decided to have the team come to our house and set up on long tables under our 3 giant oak trees to reduce the tedium of system testing. It was a great idea and everyone seemed to like the tranquility of our property and the chance to get away from the distractions at the office.

Unfortunately, though, one of the women on the team got an early indoctrination to our wildlife habitat. Shortly after they set up under the trees, a bird did its business overhead, which landed right on the "B" key of her laptop! Yuk! From the reports, she was good-humoured about it at least.

While we were shooting the breeze outside with the last person here, I heard what sounded like a playful child scream, not a mad or getting-hurt scream. My younger son even play-screamed back, thinking that's what it was. Right after that, a Red-Headed Woodpecker flew over my shoulder towards the woods I was facing! I have that on my life-list, so I immediately recognized it, but it was the first time I had seen one on our property! Cool!

If you listen to its voice on the What Bird site link to it above, you will see what I mean about a child screaming! My mom reports the first time she saw and heard these was a large flock of them apparently migrating. Imagine 100 or more of those voices all together. WOW!