Category: Banff National Park
The largest of the woodpeckers in Canada, I spotted this bird among the burnt wood from a prescribed burn in Banff National Park (Sawback burn in 1993). The woodpecker managed to chisel off the charred wood to expose an ant nest underneath and had a good meal of ant larvae.
In between eating dandelions mom and cubs would wrestle with each other. Here the cubs teamed up to take on mom
Late in the afternoon this coyote wandered into a meadow where I was photographing a bull elk. It didn’t seem bothered by my presence and quickly found it’s next meal when it pounced on a ground squirrel and gobbled it up.
Owen Slater Photography 