{"id":6738,"date":"2012-11-27T17:44:06","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T01:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6738"},"modified":"2012-11-27T23:40:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T07:40:17","slug":"owl-3-woodpeckers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6738","title":{"rendered":"Owl & 3 woodpeckers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Despite having gone for a number of walks in fields and forest of late, I have seen little in the trees of feathered interest. Today, I was merely running\u00a0errands, but packed my camera out of habit.<\/p>\n

Unexpectedly, I saw an owl and three woodpeckers: Northern Pygmy Owl, Northern Flicker (a woodpecker), Pileated Woodpecker, and Downy Woodpecker. There was also a Bald Eagle, but I was too busy with the more interesting Downy to bother with it.<\/p>\n

Moral: pack a camera.<\/p>\n

This is hardly the best picture of a Northern Pygmy Owl I have taken, but it was the first since March, 2011<\/a>, so I was pleased.
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The owl may be infrequent, but the flicker is common. \u00a0I include today’s picture only to complete the set and mark this as a three-woodpecker day.
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The Pileated Woodpecker is our largest woodpecker. This male has been drilling holes in the tree looking for bugs that might have bedded down for the winter.
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In striking contrast to the pileated is our smallest woodpecker, the Downy. It presented me with the best views of the day, so I show two of them. First a profile,
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and then a view of its backside. This bird is also a male.
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