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This Woodpecker was formerly called the Arctic Woodpecker or Black-backed Three-toed Woodpecker. It does have only three toes which is a characteristic it shares with the American Three-toed Woodpecker (Picoides dorsalis) which can also be found here. This one is a female. I added a recent shot of a male in the first comment box for comparison. Note the yellow crown.
This species eats mainly wood-boring insects which it obtains by scaling bark from trees to expose the holes created by those insects. If you look to the left of the bird, you can see the exposed boring holes in the area where the bark was removed. The Woodpecker inserts its long barbed tongue to extract a meal.
We usually find these ones by listening for the irregular tapping and tearing sounds created by the scaling activity. Falling bark chips are also a good tell.
This is how Lee and I found this one today.
Grey Nuns White Spruce Park. St. Albert, Alberta.
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heatwave and sunshine over, back to normal, Irish normal that is
Liffey River, O'Connell Bridge, Dublin
The avian flu is back in our area, so the zoo has decided to shelter many of its birds indoors. Jack, the black swan, along with barnyard birds and penguins, are included in the population deemed most vulnerable.
See you when it's over, my friends!
Once again today, we travel back across the United States to Disneyland for a night shot of Space Mountain. This is such a great area to shoot at night because there is hardly ever anybody that's going to be in your shot, which is what I like. On a clear night, you will get this awesome starry sky which compliments Space Mountain in the foreground. Which Space Mountain do you like to photograph? Pick your favorite Disney Park! Have a great weekend!
One of the 18 Jubilees transferred to 17B Burton shed in November 1961 was 45585 Hyderabad. Looking at the external condition it seems likely that this was one that spent most of the time at Burton stored out of use. The winter of 1962/63 saw several stored locos brought back into action and here 45585 heads 3V20, the Derby to Bristol Parcels past the long closed platforms at Branston.
Despite the terrible external condition the loco seems in good mechanical order with a complete lack of leaking steam. Maybe the reason it was transferred to Derby shed in January 1963.
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Somewhere along the back roads of Seeley's Bay, where the nights are dark and the stars are plentiful. This is a 3 shot panorama with a little light painting to illuminate the foreground.
Back in the desert, back among the cactus and all things spiny.
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Fall Break 2014: "Turtles & Lava"
November 1: Hawaii to Arizona, a long day's journey into another day; reacquainting with the desert.
Rio Grande GP9 No. 5903 pulls train No. 668 past the D&RGW passenger station in Provo, Utah on a warm August 1974 afternoon. The local is returning from United States Steel's Geneva Works.
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~Hair: Miwas: Keen
Male Wandering Percher.
Odonata: Libellulidae: Diplacodes: bipunctata
An often unseen part of a dragonflys head... the back of it.
I've taken 1 or 2 photos like this before but only by chance.
While I was photographing the side and front shots of this little fella, I remembered about the back of the head shots from before, so I set myself up to do a deliberate shoot of it.
Focus stacked using Zerene.
Pima Air and Space Museum, Lockheed VC-140B, cn 5044, BuNo 62-4200, used by artist Kenny Scharf as canvas for his artwork called "Back to Supersonica".
or perhaps 'companion planting'.
The chilli plant has a friend, parsley, planted in another mosaic pot yesterday.
Out of shot, the pots are positioned in a bird bath.
Just a few minutes back yard shots. Distant sparrows and a few gulls were all that obliged. This one has the characteristic red eye circle but can't tell if it's a Great or Lesser.
Lok 72 (Henschel 31573/1972) ist nach ihrer Hauptuntersuchung seit Mitte Januar wieder zurück. Hier rangiert sie am Völklinger Saarufer. (1. Februar 2025)
Here's the back of the bag partner. The heart is my first attempt at paper piecing- I really like the technique!
Probably not what Amy Winehouse had in mind.
On a couple of occasions the Ffestiniog has turned out Linda in her former Penrhyn Quarry’s black livery. Here in 1999 she heads slate wagons past Tanygrisau.
I captured this Green-backed Kingfisher whilst walking through Tangkoko Nature Reserve on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia - and what a site to come across.
An unmistakable, spectacular large forest kingfisher with a big orange bill, a moss-green back, burnt-orange underparts, and a white throat. Head is bright azure-blue in north and central Sulawesi, but very dark blackish-blue in the south. Females show rufous facial markings that are absent in males. Juveniles are duller, with horn-colored bills. Found singly and in pairs in forest understory of lowlands and lower hills.
20210704_9792_7D2-33 Black-backed Gulls
Two Black-backs fight over a piece of food while a third heads in to join the fray.
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