downy woodpecker

A downy woodpecker taking a rest from his clingy lifestyle. Unsharp mask was applied to this photo.

Finally got a shot of the female of the pair of Downy's that have been coming regularly to my suet feeders.

Male Downy visiting new suet ball feeder.. Just missed the female who was there just before the male came.

Uppy or Downy.

No, not really. Just looks that way ;)

This completes my rant against the rain ;) See what a little sunshine does for me?

The numbers of birds in the feeders continue to increase daily with the continued below freezing temperatures. We are getting more snow this afternoon and the birds seem to be in a feeding frenzy. I've had 18 species of birds in the garden today including four kinds of Woodpeckers. This morning...

Today was the seasons the first good snow. I took these from my kitchen window so the quality is not that good.

My 50-500 lens is in for a well deserved overhall so have been strugling with using my 70-300 only. lol Found this fellow in tree in backyard yesterday. Hope to have lens back by next week.

Male - perched on a poplar branch

Well some anyway ;)

Still very few birds at the seed feeders but I'm seeing all the local Woodpeckers at the suet. Can't wait for my sparrows and finches to come back. I cloned a bit of the suet feeder out of the upper right of the image.

I hand held for this shot and the bugger wouldn't stop moving. Add that to manual focusing and I was amazed it came out this well.

Downy Woodpecker female.

Finding some bugs!!

It's nice to see the Downy's back now that the Blue Jays have thinned out.

This is the male of a pair of downys that come to the suet feeder every day.

I took this one a few weeks ago in Arkansas while on vacation. I think this is a Hairy Woodpecker and not a Downy due to the length of the beak. It also appeared to be a little larger. I would love some opinions of others though. Thanks...Ed

Another woodpecker...

This image is useful: some find it a little difficult to differentiate between Downy and Hairy. The tail of the Downy has spots on the outer white tail feathers; where the Hairy does not (except for the Pacific race which does but they are smaller and the overall bird has a dusky brown tone in...

Waiting her turn on the Sweet Gum Tree trunk

Another shot of my friend, Darrel. Got to trust me pretty good for a couple of summers, before hummingbird feeders took over my porch. He would faithfully gather seeds for his mate in their out in the first oak in the pasture. One at a time, all day long. We talked a lot.