ML127106141

Age and sex

Adult Male - X

Observation details

found on 1.5 mile road past wilmar creek in section 9 or 10, about a mile before 1.5 mile road thrns north into east shore drive. The bird was feeding in a spruce tree on the south side of the road. The tree we first spotted the bird in was across from a mailbox with the name Mr. and Mrs. Wm, J. Rajala and also had a Blue Tricounty Buyers Guide mailbox. Obvious field marks included heavily barred flanks, yellow cap, heavily barred back. The bird was incredibly tame and spent 15 mins feeding in a spruce 20 ft from us. Other marks seen while carefully studying the bird included dark bars or spots on the white outer rectrices, fairly extensive yellow cap, which was slightly streaky, bill seem a bit shorter than Black-backeds I have seen, and the bird also seemed smaller than the black-backeds I have seen. Also a bit smaller than the Hairy Woodpeckers that I saw later in the day on the island. The white strip started at the eye and continued down to the back. Also, the bird had 3 toes. I sketched the bird (in case my photos didn't come out... see image of sketch) and photographed the bird. As the bird fed it flaked bark off of the conifers and left chips on the snow below where it had fed. Based on plumage this is presumably a male.

Technical information

Model

Nikon SUPER COOLSCAN 4000 ED

Dimensions

2342 pixels x 2927 pixels

Original file size

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