I was walking in the deep woods....

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of the Bank Parking lot. I was getting something out of my work van and heard this knocking. This gal was tearing up the bark on a sycamore tree. Female Nuttall's Woodpecker
Just never know where you are going to get a shot. Pays to have the camera handy too. No PP, shot handheld D300 Sigma 170-500 Program mode 1/640 shuttter 250 ISO these were the cleanest I captured

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Nice captures I saw my first woodpecker 2 weeks ago up in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Beautiful birds.