Found a female Black-backed Woodpecker in a worked over stand of tamarack within the St. Wendall Tamarack Bog SNA. You will need snowshoes to work for this bird ~ 1/3mile deep into the bog. Find your way to St. Joseph, MN, N on CR2, Right on CR4 and after the road turns N, look for where I entered the bog across from a long driveway 1/4 mile S of the SNA sign. Parking not good... perhaps on nearby driveway or crossroad. Snowshoe my trail to the tamarack edge and then deeper into the bog till you find the active tree scrapes and see my stillness tracks. Also present, a family of chickadees, a downy, a tree sparrow, (heard a couple flyover WW Crossbill and probable Red Crossbill ("kip" sound I thought was a squirrel, but I didn't see any squirrel tracks or evidence), and my first owl of the year last night perched on the tamarack edge in the 5:20 twilight on my way out of the bog. mjb
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