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kygarden
Mar-25-2006, 08:22 AM
...for food I guess. Looks like a woodpecker? Which one? These photos aren't the sharpest or in great focus because I shot them through my window. I saw this guy outside the window poking his beak in the ground over and over. The first 2 photos were with white balance set to cloudy. I did that after the first several pictures I took. That's why you see a difference.

http://kygarden.smugmug.com/photos/61414345-L.jpg

http://kygarden.smugmug.com/photos/61414342-L.jpg

http://kygarden.smugmug.com/photos/61414355-L.jpg

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gluwater
Mar-25-2006, 05:11 PM
Nice Flicker (http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i4120id.html). They are usually hard to get close to around me. You did just fine.
kygarden
Mar-25-2006, 05:28 PM
Nice Flicker (http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i4120id.html). They are usually hard to get close to around me. You did just fine.

Cool. We've got wooded areas nearby and on our land too. Most of the dead locust trees are gone, but there are still some up and I see plenty of holes in them :) Lots of dead ones in the other wooded area that's not ours, I'm sure.
Rohirrim
Mar-25-2006, 08:22 PM
As Nick said your bird is a Northern Flicker. I believe it's the only woodpecker that feeds on the ground. One of their favorite foods being ants. Another nice source for info is here - http://www.birds.cornell.edu/programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Northern_Flicker.html
Stormdancing
Mar-25-2006, 08:37 PM
Cool
Didn't know they fed on the ground also.
Good shots through the window.
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Thusie
Mar-26-2006, 04:17 AM
Flickers are cool birds, nice job! Shots through windows are not easy.
Harryb
Mar-26-2006, 05:41 AM
Nice shots. What happened to your WB? It looks like two different colored birds from the first two to the last two shots?
kygarden
Mar-28-2006, 05:50 PM
Nice shots. What happened to your WB? It looks like two different colored birds from the first two to the last two shots?

I had taken some in auto white balance and then switched to Cloudy. It was indeed cloudy and I wanted to use that setting for all of them, but I forgot to set it that way first.
kygarden
Apr-01-2006, 06:46 AM
These crazy birds!!! I heard something that sounded like a hammerdrill drilling through my house! Sounded like (I thought, "No way!") a woodpecker pecking on metal. So after about 7 of these episodes, I run outside and 2 of the same type of woodpeckers you see here fly off (from the grass) and then I see a third one up on top of my metal gutter. He was the one hammering on the gutter. What a crazy bird! :)