Early morning Woodpecker

Early yesterday in my quiet contemplative drive into Logan County Kentucky, a woodpecker darted in the path of my car,  we missed by inches....... for that I am so relieved!

It was either a Hairy or Downy Woodpecker.   The Hairy is longer and is known to be a little shyer than the Downy.   But the bill length is the only real way to distinguish the different species.  Its sighting added a sweet tranquility to my early morning drive into solitudes stillness.

Screech Owl

Late yesterday evening I heard a screech in the nearby woods.   They typically sound in twilight and early dawn.  Their sound sometimes mournful but mostly to me a soothing sound of nature.