Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I just got back this month's film and thought I might post a few that I've >scanned. > >Pilleated wood pecker >http://www.photosynth.ca/photo/f/pilleated.jpg >I had been chasing these guys around all fall when one day i spotted this >fellow in the apple rite by our front porch. unfortunately the light was >quite low and this was the only one out of about eight that was acceptably >crisp. > >Sap sucker. I think. >http://www.photosynth.ca/photo/f/sap-sucker.jpg
The first one looks like a Pileated Woodpecker, but the second looks more like a Downy Woodpecker to me (though I'm not a birder at all). We've got a young Downy living in our yard. We first saw him in June when he was a baby who had only just been kicked out of the nest: http://www.robertstech.com/temp/pages/0680.htm Now that he's mostly grown up he looks much more like the bird in your photo (just saw him at the feeder this morning). -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
