No, this is not photoshopped! lol! I've been watching 2 males & 2 females constantly coming to the suet for a couple of weeks, and have tried to get a shot of 2 of them together, unsuccessfully, so when I happened to look out my window & saw these THREE lined up in a frozen pose I couldn't believe my luck!!! I believe the word is "chuffed"! :-O The only thing that would have made it better for me would have been some decent light, but couldn't expect them to wait [i]that[/i] long(around here)! They often go into these "trances" if they hear large birds(lots of hawks here) in the area(also see the Nutties doing the same), & will stay completely motionless for fairly long periods of time, I actually timed one once & it sat still for 7 minutes! (of course none of those pics are any good :-( ) When I see them do that, I look all around for the predator & will sometimes see them across the field too far for my pitiful camera(never [i]did[/i] get one for xmas, musta been worse than I thought last year! ;) ). Although I really missed my big chance when one day I saw a Downy "freeze", didn't see any in the field, turned to look out my front window & sitting in a small Maple about 25 ft from me was a HUGE red tailed hawk!!! Unfortunately, I too "froze" in awe :-O, and by the time I was able to fumble around with my camera he was gone, Needless to say, I will always have my camera ready when I see "frozen" Peckers & Nutties! (please excuse the lighting, focus, etc., I really just wanted to share ;) )
