ML609235761

Age

Not specified

Sex

Not specified

Observation details

(Rare) Photos. eBird ISSF details: Saw a recent report of a Rocky Mountain type that struck me as unlikely (no details to supoort it either), so when we found this bird I wanted to scrutinize the type. Noted fine black bars crossing the entire white back patch (more plain white in Rocky Mountain birds), prominent white eyestripe behind eye (less so with RM birds), and densely white-spotted forehead appearing mostly white (mostly black in RM birds). I'd expect we have on Northwest type birds here. Excellent views of a daper male, full yellow crown, flaking spruce bark in a big, recently dead spruce cluster, swamp-side of trail, just after the big trailside 4' boulder and just before the enormous bone white barkless blow down that's been cut through, about here: 44.246039,-121.691523 Other woodpeckers active in the same trees, downys and hairys and a possible black-backed, so could be reliable for a while.

Technical information

Model

DMC-ZS50

ISO

800

Focal length

129 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/6.4

Shutter speed

1/15 sec

Dimensions

1871 pixels x 2494 pixels

Original file size

1.13 MB