A Hairy Woodpecker (Picoides villosus) Foraging a Photo Study

I have been videotaping several species of cavity nesters in a grove of Aspens on the leeward side of the mountain top just east of my home for the last couple of mornings. My practice is to quickly set up my camera and microphone and then walk off to see what else is happening in the woods. Doing so greatly reduces the chance of interfering with the routine of the parents making deliveries of food to their young. This morning while the camera was trained on a Lewis’s Woodpecker cavity site I walked away and found this Hairy Woodpecker foraging. I filmed its’ nest site yesterday. Watching the woodpecker work was very entertaining, bark was flying and bugs were nervous!