Two parrots, presumably a male and female, were exploring a largish opening in a Raintree here in Chennai - the two had either laid their eggs in the tree-hole or were planning to. They suddenly discovered the presence of a red crested woodpecker nearby and decided it had no business to be anywhere near their abode in the tree so one of the parrots attacked the beautifully colored woodpecker who immediately took flight and went further up into the Raintree. Then it began to descend along the main tree trunk, very quietly, very stealthily by kind of rappelling down (
only there was no rope!) the tree trunk much like a mountaineer would descend down a vertical face - it had splayed its legs to lower its centre of gravity and the parrots were blissfully unaware of the woodpeckers approach! They were up in the tree, looking out fo
r a flying object while the wood
pecker was at the door of their nest!! Ofcourse, they went for the woodpecker when they finally discovered that he was planning to enter their tree hole! Check out the sequence of pics below! It was fascinating to behold!
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