Watching the neighbors

Amazing red-headed woodpecker working on the tree outside the living room window right now. He keeps leaning back and bipping from side to side as if checking the menus on the other sides of the tree, then coming back to the substantial dent he's making above where he's perched.

Earlier I was finishing my exercising while staring out another window and through a frame of snow-covered branches at a huge crow across the pond, hopping around and pecking at the ground. Another crow kept shedding snow while hopping around in the tree above. Eventually a third crow joined the first one, both somehow staying in their wintery frame even while arguing over who got which bit of ground.

Yesterday there were deer traipsing through the side yard again. They stopped to stare in the window at us when we moved to see them better, then decided against challenging the traffic on the road and headed back into the woods again.