Black-backed Woodpecker

Next in my woodpecker series is the Black-backed Woodpecker. Uncommon and localized inhabitant of northern Boreal and montane coniferous forests, comprising spruce, tamarack, red fir, hemlock, ponderosa pine, and lodgepole pine. In Oregon, they are mostly found in the cascade range and the blue mountains and the Wallowas. The are very fond of burned over and beetle infested forests so the best place to find them are in burns that are up to five or six years old. 

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Art of Donald Sutherland on display...

It is always fun to see a body of my work on display and I welcome opportunities to hang my paintings in public. I was asked to join several other artists in a show that is now hanging on the second floor of St Charles Medical Center.  They are hanging at the end of the back hall from the cafeteria which is immediately to the left as you get off the elevator. The show will be hanging till the  middle of April.   To my Bend friends, please feel free to go out of your way to see them hanging because I would not want you to be at St Charles for any other reason :=) (unless of course you work there)

Northern Flicker

The Flicker is a fairly ubiquitous woodpecker throughout North America.  They are yard birds throughout their range and can be found deep in the wild as well.  They have distinctive plumage differences between east and west, in the east the the shafts of their feathers are yellow and in the west the shafts are red. Ornithologists have pondered these differences over the years which lead at one point to splitting them into two separate species. Now, with DNA, the evidence suggests they are the same species so they are now called the Northern Flicker. Unlike most woodpeckers, you will see them sitting straight up on a branch as well as feeding on the ground.

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Red-breasted Sapsucker

Continuing the Woodpecker series with another Sapsucker, the Red-breasted Sapsucker. Their range is more coastal than the Red-napped, and the eastern Cascades is the farthest east of it's normal range in Oregon. As I mentioned, Red-breasted and Red-napped will inter bread where their ranges overlap making ID challenging in Deschutes County. Like all Sapsuckers, they drill and maintain sap wells on various conifer and deciduous trees but tend to prefer conifers. Very striking bird, indeed.

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Red-napped Sapsucker

The Red-napped Sapsucker is found throughout most of the Western States interior. In Oregon, the Cascade range is basically the farthest west they go, being replaced by the Red-breasted Sapsucker further west and to the coast. Where they overlap they occasionally interbreed so it can be a challenge to ID them in our county. They drill, maintain, and defend sap-wells throughout their territory and will supplement with insects in the summertime. 

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