Back Yard Birds - downy woodpeckers

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Back Yard Birds - downy woodpeckers - downy01.jpg

Subject:	Back Yard Birds - downy woodpeckers - downy01.jpg
Poster:	"Mark Cassino" (cassino@net-link.net)

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Back Yard Birds - downy woodpeckers - downy01.jpg

Three shots of downy woodpeckers -- I spotted this family when I came home
from running errands today. In the first two shots the smaller bird is
feeding the larger one. The third shot (a rather poor/unsharp image) shows
the male with his red head.

I speculate that the smaller bird is a mother feeding her post-hatchling son
(the large size suggests a male bird, though he doesn't have the red head
yet.) Father was just hanging around.

Shot #1 was taken about 2 hours before numbers 2 & 3 -- these birds are
devilishly difficult to see on the bark of the tree but once I tuned into
them I realized that they were coming and going pretty regularly.

For photography nuts -- the first shot was taken with a Pentax PZ-70 and SMC
80-320mm zoom (at 320), handheld at close range (less than 20 feet.) Shots
2 and 3 were taken with the PZ-70 with a Tokina ATX-400mm and an ancient
(but good!) Kiron 2x teleconverter (effectively 800mm) from about 70 feet
(tripod mounted, of course.)

--
Mark Cassino
Kalamazoo, MI
cassino@net-link.net
http://www.net-link.net/~cassino
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The downy woodpecker (Picoides pubescens) is a species of woodpecker in North America. Adult downy woodpeckers are the smallest of North American woodpeckers.

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