Head Games

I'm not posting this image because it's my favorite of the shots I took of this young male Pileated woodpecker. I'm sharing it with you because it makes me a little bit uncomfortable and yet I really like it. At first glance, my brain says, 'ok, Pileated eating BarkButter!', but then that same brain whispers to me that 'something just isn't 'right'. A gentle warning that things aren't perhaps what they seem. I keep going back to the photo, playing the game with my head. 

'If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?'
__Dogen Zendi