ML644667599
Contributor
Timothy Gluch Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Ottawa--Pine Grove Forestry Trail
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age and sex
- Adult Male - 1
- Behaviors
- Foraging or eating
Media notes
It flaked off the bark, then pounded at the wood to dig the hole. It ate quite a bit from it.
Observation details
Continuing male. Spent over half an hour flaking off bark and pounding deep holes in different spots on the same pine tree trunk. It seemed to be getting a lot of food. (Original photos attached.) It then flew over to stop briefly on a few other trees nearby before crossing the trail and working on the side branch of a large and very old white pine tree I had seen it on before. Unfortunately another Woodpecker then flew onto the middle of that tree, saw the Black-backed and chased it away. The Black-backed didn’t go far and circled back to work briefly on another tree before I lost track of it.
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D5000
- ISO
- 1000
- Focal length
- 500 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/125 sec
- Dimensions
- 4288 pixels x 2848 pixels
- Original file size
- 3.09 MB