About 9 a.m. this morning along the Gem Lake Trail in Rocky Mountain National Park, about a mile from the Lumpy Ridge trailhead, I heard, then spotted, a pair of three-toed woodpeckers along with a pair of hairy woodpeckers thoroughly covering an infested ponderosa pine and a few nearby pines. Three of the birds were on the same trunk at the same time vying for choice feeding spots. The trunk of the big ponderosa was filled top to bottom with woodpecker holes, and the ground below littered with bark. Other mountain birds seen were Townsend Solitaires singing away, lots of red-breasted nuthatches, pygmy nuthatches, mountain chickadees, several crows, a couple of ravens, and a Steller Jay. An hour later on my way back down the trail, the woodpeckers were still in the vicinity and the same tree trunk. Denise Bretting Denise A. Bretting [email protected]
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