Pileated Woodpecker (6 images)

Option1 · November 25, 2007

I was wandering around Mud Lake here in Ottawa on Monday and was just about to pack up the car and head home when I heard the familiar drumming close by. Upon investigation I found this lady hard at work on a dead tree. She was only about 3 or 4 feet above ground level and she let me sneak (and I use the term very loosely - crunch, snap, rustle, stumble, stagger, crunch...) up to within about 10 or so feet of her. Any closer and I would have been inside the minimum focussing distance of the Sigma 80-400mm OS lens I had on the D100.

Anyway, enough rambling from me, on with the show.

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#2 Wildlife at 80mm:

#3 Let the chips fly

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#5 Halllooooo! Anybody in there?

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This is my first post here, so I hope you enjoyed them and c&c is always welcome.
Neil