Hello, welcome back to the show. I'm your host, Evan Brand, certified functional medicine practitioner

operating worldwide from Kentucky, where I've been watching some awesome birds. I'm going to play

you a couple sounds here in a minute because why not? If you think birds are boring, then I think

you're boring. So I've been seeing the red-headed woodpecker, which I just love so much.

Here's an interesting fact about red-headed woodpeckers. Well, not really an interesting fact. This is just something people get

wrong. When you look at a red-bellied woodpecker, it technically has a redhead if it's a male,

but that's not a red-headed woodpecker. If it has a redhead and it's a woodpecker, that doesn't mean it's a redheaded woodpecker. They're completely different than the actual redheaded woodpecker.

So look them up so you can see the difference.

The redheaded is beautiful.

It's like a solid, dark, almost maroonish red.

It's got a beautiful black and white body with a white stripe kind of across his wings.

So when they fly, they've got a really distinct pattern the way

they fly too. So you can spot them from so far away if you know what you're looking at. I've been

loving watching these. We've got so many dead ash trees around here, which is unfortunate,

but it's a good habitat for them. So that's my whole story on birds. And also we've been seeing

something we haven't seen here yet, which is

the first sound that you're going to hear. The first sound you're going to hear is the polluted

woodpecker. That's the biggest woodpecker in North America that we know of that's still alive.

There was one slightly bigger that I think has gone extinct. But the palated woodpecker is like 17 inches

tall. They are gigantic birds and at my

old house that was much deeper in the woods we heard and saw palidids all the time so that's the

first sound you'll hear and then the second sound is the call of the redheaded and then the third

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