The white-head woodpecker is one of our residents in the Sierra Nevada. This one was really working over these sugar pine cones. The cones had already released their seeds, so this woodpecker must have been hunting insects.
The white-head woodpecker is one of our residents in the Sierra Nevada. This one was really working over these sugar pine cones. The cones had already released their seeds, so this woodpecker must have been hunting insects.
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Thanks Lisa! 😀
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Min glede kjære venn💐😄
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How sweet!!! 🙂
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🙂
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Very nice images!
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Thank you very much!
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Great bird shots
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Thank you Martha.
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Cute findings
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Thanks Tienny! 🙂
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You are welcome
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We have the “red-headed’ woodpecker here in St. Louis. I love to listen to their sound. Soothing to me in some way….
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I didn’t hear the song of this bird. It was too busy working over the cones. Fun to watch it do it’s thing.
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Lovely little ‘hammer’ in the woods…..:)
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Indeed!
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I don’t know why, but something about these photos make me wonder what it’s like to be a bird. How do they pick what pine to land on? Are they systematic, searching row by row, or just randomly picking here and there? Do they ever care about the view? Strange questions, perhaps, but you have a way to make photographs of animals that make them “personal”. I like that. If I could be a bird, only once, to try it! 😉
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I would be fun indeed. Although, I don’t think I would enjoy the hanging upside down!
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What a great photo!! Love it!
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Thank you Judy.
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Tim,
I know your job places you in the woods with wildlife, but you know how to take advantage of the moment, stay prepared, camera ready, and share the moment with readers. What a blessing you are to us. Merry Christmas to you and Mary!
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Thank you Linda and Merry Christmas to you and your family. I try to always have my camera ready. 😉
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Very beautiful!
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Thank you Joy!
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Fantastic photos! We use those sugar cones in our winter pot displays.
Great minds think alike. . Just uploading pix of a lady red bellied woodpecker for an upcoming post.
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I’ll look for your post. Do the sugar pine cones come sticky with pitch? They are usually pretty pitchy. You can heat them, which make the pitch melt and it hardens when it cools. Be warned, it’s a smelly process and you’ll want foil under your cones.
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Oh yes, very much full of pitch, however that gives them character! Smell great when I drill the hole in the bottom to put the stick in to hold them in the display. Pretty sticky at the end of the day.
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If you heat them the pitch becomes like varnish.
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I’ve never seen one of these! Very different from ours here…I picked up two baskets of pine cones today…I should have checked them for insects.
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Pine cones are loaded with hidey places for bugs!
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How splendid you caught him like this Tim – a real beauty – our woodpeckers always seem so shy and dart off as quick as lightning
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This one was so intent of a meal that is was oblivious of me.
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Very pretty bird. I guess he kept that little red woodpecker spot for the back of his neck. We have several woodpecker species around here: the very large pileated, the rose breasted, the red headed, and a little one that I can’t remember the name of. How big is this guy?
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This one is about the size of a jay. I don’t see these very often. It’s good to be lucky!
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Beautiful photographs, Tim, great captures!
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Thank you Vivian.
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Great captured.
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Thanks Jake!
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Thanks for stopping by – and what a beautiful woodpecker! Well captured.
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Thank you so much Flora!
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