Dec 29, 2014
Barbara got her lifer in the NWT this summer, but Bill was
still in the tent and missed it!
We had already made two trips to Grimes
Cres. in Alymer without seeing the reported bird,
so I was pretty discouraged. Then Rick
got it again on the woodpecker blitz day, and kindly provided us with detailed
instructions on where to look.
We went in early afternoon and spent a few minutes on the
road seeing nothing. Then I noticed a
board across the ditch that kids had put to get into the woods to their tree
fort. With nothing to lose, we went
inside and looked around. Right away, we
flushed the Three-toed Woodpecker to a nearby tree.
The low sun was right in our faces, so we quickly went back
out to the road to get the light behind
us. The bird was unconcerned by our
presence, but was covered by dense branches most of the time, only coming into
the clear briefly for photos. Barbara
made a video.
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