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bance. Hence, I've gotten pretty good at identifying bird rear ends. However, it took me a minute to figure out which butt exactly I was seeing when I took my first walk around the pond next to my new house last month.

The flight pattern helped— fast and erratic. I thought woodpecker first, especially after I heard the bird’s call, which was raucous and definitely not belonging to a song bird.

However, both the flight pattern and call didn’t quite fit in with the woodpeckers’. I finally saw the bird land on a nearby branch and

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