Sometimes I don’t need to go into Forest Park at all, to see interesting birds…it so happened that this morning I decided to take along MLC2 (the weather seemed Not Rainy and Not Too Humid) and it was great, as I saw three DOWNY WOODPECKERS jumping around on a tree-trunk, on the Metro Rail bank, near a bridge that I was crossing…..I managed to get a FP (Foozly Photograph) of one:

Folks..meet Karen of Crane Creek, El Portal, Yosemite National Park.

We were driving through Forest Park when I realized that this was a bird I was familiar with, but hadn’t seen before in the US:

Gardening, said my daughter, cannot be called a creative or green pursuit.