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I wish they weren't so skittish so I wasn't reduced to taking pictures through the screen. Even then I have to go below window level like some kind of spy.
Know what you mean. These Pileated Woodpeckers have been visiting us for years but until a couple days ago have never gotten close to get a good close-up. This guy has been visiting the suet right outside our kitchen window lately. After I snapped a few I raised the blind from below the window ever-so-slowly and off he flew.
Know what you mean. These Pileated Woodpeckers have been visiting us for years but until a couple days ago have never gotten close to get a good close-up. This guy has been visiting the suet right outside our kitchen window lately. After I snapped a few I raised the blind from below the window ever-so-slowly and off he flew.
That's a nice picture under the circumstances. We have redbellied woodpeckers around here that avoid me like I was the paparazzi. "CAMERA!!"
We have a Golden Raintree about 15' from our house in back that I have our suet feeders hanging from. We get downy and hairy woodpeckers in it all the time and they'll hop around and eat while you're back there without giving you a second thought. A couple of days ago a big old redbellied lit in the tree and hung around for a couple of minutes while I was standing in the doorway back there. I basically froze with my camera just a few feet away. I reeeeeached over and got ahold of it, slooowly raised it and the moment I turned it on he was gone in a flash, 50' away and about 70' feet up in our oak tree hidden in the foliage. I felt like I was Charlie Brown and Lucy just pulled the football away again. The only halfway decent picture I've ever gotten of one was about 100' away, 40' up while one was pounding away on top of an electrical box on a telephone pole.
I've already told my wife to watch the little ones by the back door when they're here. I was about 20' away and she flew up on the roof then started chirping and staring me down. One year we had one nest in our floods over another door and every. single. time. I went through that door she was all over me like gangbusters.
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