I swear I posted this earlier, but I don't see it now! I was just saying how much I like those birds! They crack me up the way they peck away at the moss between concrete sidewalks....and the other day one was pounding away on my chiminey!

Great shot even though it's a little covered up. How fun to have a new telephoto lens!

Thanks, sue, my daughter asked my why I got the eye covered up by a leaf. You take what you get. It is fun, but that lens is harder to get right, heavier, was expensive, etc. It is fairly easy to find your subject in the viewfinder, however, the hard part would be what settings to use and fighting to get fast enough shutter speeds and you really need a tripod or monopod to give you more stability even though it has IS, and that slows me down. How do you turn a pod way high in a tree in time? You can get a panning head. One more thing to buy, it will have to wait.

That thing pecks on my cedar shingles. It eluded me the day before by the time I got out there with my camera.

I should be looking at everybody else's stuff, and I'm on overload. Not very nice to post and then not look at others, still trying to catch up with correspondence from when my modem was down.

Is that a Downey or a Hairy Woodpecker?

Nice clear shot. If I find my bird book, there is enough detail to make a positive ID.

I can't tell if there is red on the throat or not, but if you find your book, please check for Yellow-bellied Sapsucker.

Last April I got a shot of this or the same kind of bird on my birch tree with my 50mm lens which didn't cut it, but still some people were able to posit an ID from that.

What do you think?

Here is a link that might be useful: Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, maybe?