Here are a couple of pictures of a pair of Black-backed Woodpecker (Picoides arcticus) nesting in a dead pine in a spruce bog in the eastern Adirondacks.
Figure 1. The male, having just arrived
back at the nest. Photo by Angus Wilson©, 6th June 1999.
Figure 2. Female about to emerge from its
nesting hole with a pellet. Photo by Angus Wilson©, 6th June 1999.
Photographs and page layout copyright ofAngus
Wilson© 1999 All rights reserved.
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