Woodpeckers & Hummingbirds. Butterflies & a Coyote

New places, new birds -- Acorn & Nuttall's Woodpeckers, Gila & Ladder-backed, Allen's Hummingbirds, a Blue Grosbeak -- same penchant for assigning meaning.

Acorn Woodpecker

I wrote of the Red-cockaded Woodpecker and Prothonotary Warbler: “I have a penchant for assigning meaning to birds…Sometimes assigning meaning is an unfortunate penchant, but I try to assign positive ones.”

A trip to a different region—the reason I didn’t publish anything last week—led to new woodpeckers among other birds, animals, and l…