Downy Woodpecker
For lack of anything better to do this evening, and in order to give me a new project for my daily photograph, I’ve decided to start digging out some photos of birds I have in my files, cropping them, and posting them to my blog. Most were taken with a telephoto lens, but not a long one so they have to be blown up quite a bit. However, that should be OK for the purpose of this blog, as all the images are low resolution anyway. This will also give me an excuse to break out the old bird book and identify them – I was quite into birding about ten or fifteen years ago but have let that hobby slip for some time. So now, if I can’t think of anything too profound to post, I’ll just dig up a bird!
This is a male Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens)(with a bug in his beak) that I photographed at the nearby Nelson Lake Marsh last April 10th. Nelson Lake is probably about the best place to go birding around here, and it’s only four miles from my house. I’ll have to get out there more often, and bring my binoculars and bird-book as well as my camera!
