Two Woodpeckers

Two Woodpeckers

A cold, not quite spring morning;
one woodpecker flies onto a rock
closely followed by the other, alighting on a fence nearby.
With their backs to one another;
first the one on the fence turns and sings to lower one's back.
Then the one on the rock turns to face the other who turns around.
Now the lower one turns to sing to the other's back
And so it goes, always one singing to the other’s back.
This pivoting duet goes on for a few minutes,
and then the lower one flies onto a high tree branch;
quickly followed by the other on a lower.
Two chickadees enter right and left;
woodpeckers exit rear.