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Red-bellied Woodpecker

I was photographing this Red-bellied Woodpecker when he suddenly raised his crown feathers and looked back over his shoulder. I looked in the same direction and saw a Cooper's Hawk in a distant tree. When I turned back, the woodpecker was gone. Smart woodpecker.

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