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This Morning Outside

by Diane Porter

November 11, 2018
Fairfield, Iowa

Some cold mornings, you gotta give your down coat a good fluffing up. Including the head. You can lose a lot of heat through the head.

Actually, Red-bellied Woodpecker's feathers are slicked-down sleek most of the time. He just roused them for a moment this morning. Maybe it felt to him like stretching, or yawning.

Birds have tiny muscles in the skin to stand their feathers on end. In our skin, similar muscles jump into action when something thrills us and gives us goose bumps. Like a Red-bellied Woodpecker landing closeby.

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Diane Porter, Birdwatching Dot Com

Chickadee on hand

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