Wild Wednesday … White-Headed Woodpecker

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A white-headed woodpecker probing for insects in a sugar pine cone. Pen and ink.

 

 

Forestry Friday … White-Headed Woodpecker

The white-head woodpecker is one of our residents in the Sierra Nevada. This one was really working over these sugar pine cones. The cones had already released their seeds, so this woodpecker must have been hunting insects.

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