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| © July '12 photo by smck |
Birds The Golden Guide to
Field Identification of North America
An uncommon woodpecker even in its
preferred habitat - coniferous forests. Note barred sides and black
back. In the East no other woodpecker except the much larger
Pileated has a solid black back. . . .Only the male has the yellow
crown.
The first or second day back at the
Grand River Falls house I thought that I might possibly have seen a
Black Backed woodpecker atop one of the power poles along the road
but the brightness of the early morning sun made identification
difficult. Thus this morning when I had had tea I decided to check
out the power pole (it also had a visible opening at the very top
that just might have been a woodpecker nesting cavity) again but as I
started to get up from the steps where I had been looking out across
the yard while drinking my tea the very object of my thoughts flew in
and started pecking away for breakfast on one of the pines that Buddy
had planted many years ago. He continued unconcerned as I went in
for my binoculars and my camera and returned hoping to get a decent
photograph or two.
These two photos show him much better
than the ones I posted in May (Black-Backed Three-Toed Woodpecker ).
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| © July '12 photo by smck |
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