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Male black-backed woodpecker (Picoides arcticus) exiting it's nest after feeding the chicks inside. Bat Lake Trail, Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, June 2019. Both male & female made repeated visits to feed the chicks while I was nearby. They always kept a wary eye on me but only paused briefly in feeding for a short while when I moved a bit quickly & startled the male on his first visit after I arrived.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been interested in photography. My dad & both my older brothers had decent cameras, and I can remember being really excited when my twin brother & I got our first instamatic cameras when we were kids. In my teens I had a 35mm fixed-lens camera, kind of a hybrid between an instamatic & a REAL camera! I bought myself a Ricoh KR-10, 35mm camera for a college graduation present & soon after, my first telephoto lens. I can still tell you the very first shots I took with that lens! I’ve also always had a deep affinity with nature. I grew up in the south end of St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada and spent MANY happy hours wandering the woods & fields of the Niagara Escarpment & the 12-Mile-Creek valley....