Male Downy Woodpecker

Hikin' Mike

[FONT=georgia,palatino]What a great day! I've been hearing and seeing this male Nuttall's Woodpecker at my feeder for a while. This afternoon I saw him in the trees looking my way (my feeder/station/blind). He flew right to the old tree, filled with my peanut butter 'suet' mix and got a few pictures![/FONT]
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5D, 300mm f/4L IS, 1.4x II, ISO 400, 1/250, f/16, tripod[/FONT]

bfjr

Nice one
Backgrd works well and it's a cool pose
and I still don't have one

jeff lapoint

Great shot and BG. Nice work with the suet as well!

Ric Grupe

Another reason to keep your trees pruned!

Very nice.

Hikin' Mike

...it's actually a "pruned" dead Christmas Tree from 2 years ago. I put it in a pot with rocks in the bottom, so I can move it around!

BTW, I was told this guy is a "Nuttall's Woodpecker", not a Downy. What to I know....I'm a landscape photographer....not a bird guy (yet).