All; A certainly rare in any season, (Arctic) Three-toed Woodpecker was located, and watched leisuredly, as it worked hard to find food on the trunk of one ³ripe² tree by young Chris Suhka, of Field, along with your reporter and Fred Pinto, on Saturday aft. It will probably be around that vicinity for awhile yet. It was a female. It was within a small, but dense forest of 30-year old White Spruce and Balsam Fir just west of the little town of Field, off a now snowmobile trail on the way to Muskesung Lake. Field is about 20 miles north of Sturgeon Falls, which is in turn some 30 miles due west of North Bay. North Bay is 4 stop-lights north of Toronto. Toronto is --? Dick Tafel, 705 472-7907
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