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Black-backed Woodpecker Nest!?
These guys are not known to breed in Ottawa and I'm not sure there is even a single breeding record here so it was quite a surprise seeing this beautiful male Black-backed Woodpecker enter what appears to be a nest hole. I did not observe a female in the area nor did I see any excavating going on so perhaps it was just a resting hole. Another visit there by yours truly is surely in the cards...
Canon 7D + 100-400L @400mm, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/400s., f/6.3, ISO 800, natural light, handheld, small crop for comp, darkened pupil, a larger distracting imperfection on the tree patched out, darkened some parts of the tree via burn tool and used the sponge tool to add some vibrance to it's colours.