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Recently named New York-Penn League All-Star Peter Alonso belted his team-leading fifth homer of the summer Monday as Brooklyn battered Tri-City to snap a four-game losing streak. Eagle photo by Jeff Melnik

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Like an early evening thunder shower that breaks the oppressive humidity, albeit...

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Slugging first baseman Peter Alonso belted a three-run homer Wednesday in Hudson Valley to help the Cyclones move within 2 1/2 games of the first-place Renegades and Staten Island Yankees. Eagle photo by Jeff Melnik

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Jay Jabs went 0-for-3 Tuesday as the offensively challenged Brooklyn Cyclones managed just one hit, enduring their second shutout loss in three games against Aberdeen at Coney Island’s MCU Park. Eagle photo by Jeff Melnick

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Much like their Major League brethren, the Brooklyn Cyclones can’t hit...

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Tuesday’s doubleheader was twice as nice for the Cyclones as they swept the arch rival Yankees and moved within three games of first-place Hudson Valley in the ever-tightening McNamara Division race. Eagle photos by Jeff Melnik

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Brooklyn Bird Watch

By Joseph Palmer

Meet the Red Bellied Woodpecker. After seeing Heather Wolf’s excellent photo of a Downy Woodpecker that she spotted in Brooklyn Bridge Park, I sent the Eagle a photo I had taken of the same kind of woodpecker digging out a nest in a large tree limb here in Central Florida. Then a Brooklyn Heights resident sent a picture of a Downy Woodpecker holding on to the side of a tree near the Promenade in Brooklyn Heights.

I’ve had some other experiences with woodpeckers here in Central Florida where there is, for example, an abundance of Red Bellied Woodpeckers. In spite of its name it would seem, Bird experts confess that this beautiful bird actually has very little red on its belly. Its just not as visible as its bright red crown.

As highlighted in the Eagle’s BROOKLYN BIRD WATCH series, woodpeckers have adapted to the violent pecking against everything from hard wood to metal, which would obviously cause brain damage to a bird not so adapted.

Something interesting I found out about the Red Bellied Woodpecker is one of the ways it protects its brain from the shock of the violent pecking is to withdraw its long tongue back into a canal that essentially wraps the tongue around it brain for additional insulation and padding. Professional birders might have known this although this was a new, interesting to me.

When you hear the loud machine gun-like repetition of a Red Bellied Woodpecker hammering on a metallic leaf gutter for example, it’s not because they think its wood, its because they are trying to communicate with another bird somewhere.

And when you hear the strange guttural call of the Red Bellied Woodpecker, you wonder, who would respond to that weird sound? And then, after a few moments, you hear like a delayed echo in the distance, she has returned his call. My money says he’ll find her.

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