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visited the same nail spa last week for another dose of toe pampering and nail art. this time i got lots more "diamonds" and the lines were drawn free hand.
oh and check out my photoshop extraction. first time doing it so excuse the hard edges.
The clouds in the sky were just unbelieveably white and fluffy, I had to take a shot of them. Because of my general mood today I decided that I wanted to make the picture more vintage. After editing the photo, I thought the picture might look better as a diptych. Earlier in the day I was painting my toe nails a soft pink and I thought it would be a lovely and simple picture to add.
I think I like the whole vintage, diptych style thing. Might see more of this (:
This is only the second time I have seen a Three-toed Woodpecker. They seem to be even more uncommon here than the Black-backed Woodpecker.
The Sibley Guide describes these Woodpeckers and the closely related Black-backed Woodpecker as uncommon to rare in spruce forests. The Atlas of Breeding Birds of Alberta describes them as not abundant anywhere in its range.
This is a circumboreal species that breeds throughout northern Canada, the northeastern United States and the Rocky Mountains.
They are smaller than Hairy Woodpeckers, but bigger than Downy Woodpeckers. One often finds them more by sound than sight. They create an irregular tapping sound on the spruce trees and tear off bark chips as they look for insect eggs and larvae.
The Three-toed Woodpecker is about an inch shorter than the Black-backed Woodpecker. The female Three-toed Woodpecker has a black crown with white streaks. The female Black-backed Woodpecker has a solid black crown. The males of both species have a yellow crown. The male Three-toed Woodpecker will have white speckles before and aft of the yellow crown. Both species have three toes.
Both sexes of the Three-toed Woodpecker have variably white barred backs. Both sexes of the Black-backed Woodpecker have a solid black back.
I added a shot of the back view of this Three-toed Woodpecker and a back view of a female Black-backed Woodpecker for comparison. I hope to get a shot of a male Three-toed Woodpecker so I can show a comparison of the males of these species.
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South Whitemud Trail (Snow Valley to Aspen). February 21, 2011.