I had the privilege of seeing a female Black-backed woodpecker twice at my house today. The first time I was walking along a path at the edge of a white pine woods, and I heard a tapping. I thought it might be a Hairy, so I scanned the trees above but saw nothing. Then I looked down at a large white pine bough that had fallen a year or so ago, and I saw her. I even had my binoculars in hand (how often does that happen?) so I got a good look at her glossy, solid black back.
I saw her again later in the day, then I inspected the pine bough and found that a lot of its bark has been stripped, and there are holes here and there. When I saw the woodpecker she seemed to be pecking, not just flaking bark. I am hoping there is a male lurking nearby! -- Deb Sewell My blog: http://whitepines.blogspot.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20070414/5e06623b/attachment.html
