I Am A Sucker for Sappy Shots Like This

[Gary Fairhead]

Or...Love Sucks as it should for the Yellow Bellied Sapsucker:p

Here it is a Valentines Day thread just in case there are any romantics out there;) From last Summer.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a300/g2a/More%20shots/loves.jpg

[cheerio0s]

Haha, there's two ways of looking at this. 1) "This is my hole, get away!", or two 2) "What's up sugah?"

Excellent shot, you must be feeling lucky :D

[kilowat]

I've got a headache go away

[canonshooter4life]

awww! nice shot:p

[R_Metzel]

Great shot! But damn those hole to hole salesman!!!

[Reyno]

May I come in.....Great capture as always Gary.

[canonloader]

Great shot Gary. I'd love to see something like this. :)

[bromm]

Great shot Gary. I'd love to see something like this. :)
I'll second that. Well done.

[Gary Fairhead]

Thanks for the comments everyone..glad you liked it:D She moved in BTW, they had 2 chicks ( 1 male and 1 female) and they would be somewhere South this time of year.

[catsith]

lovely shot, and great comments guys!

[hTr]

Great Shot Gary

[morehtml]

Good holiday shot Gary. Do you ever see those Snowy's together?

[pttenn]

Awww-cute shot! Glad to know it worked out for them, romance still happens I guess.
Karen

[ZipDude66]

You're such a romantic Gary.:)

Zip
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[memorex88]

Nice shot. Happy Valentines day!

[GyRob]

I see it as a funny shot but a very nice one too.
Rob.

[dancad]

Nice to have both sexes in the same shot. Hope to see them raise another family this year...

[downywp]

Sooooo Sweet!! :D

[sam walker]

well done again Gary your working at this birdography thing.
Sam

[busbyea]

Very nice Gary;

I have to make an effort to go and see these this coming spring/summer.

[3Turner]

Haha, there's two ways of looking at this. 1) "This is my hole, get away!", or two 2) "What's up sugah?"

Excellent shot, you must be feeling lucky :D

Or..."I just don't let any woodpecker in this hole." :lol:

[begovics]

Great photo.

[guitarman3]

What a beauty, Gary! Very nice indeed.

[Gary Fairhead]

Good holiday shot Gary. Do you ever see those Snowy's together?


Not so far.......I saw a White Male fly by and another Snowy was flying towards it for a a second or 2 and then veered off and landed on a pole. There is a Juvenile I saw this past Sunday withing a 1/4 mile of the one I usually photograph and I got some shots of it in flight but I have not seen these two meet up ..........yet:)

Thanks to everyone who looked and commented....must now return to work:cry:

[Kiddpsychotic]

Nice shot Gary, excellent work; may I ask, where you were when you took that shot? What was your vantage point? were you up in the trees Gary?

[kato1]

Very cool shot!

[Gary Fairhead]

Nice shot Gary, excellent work; may I ask, where you were when you took that shot? What was your vantage point? were you up in the trees Gary?

Thanks and the vantage was quite good. The hole was not more than 9 feet up and facing West towards the river with the only disatvantage being that there was only a few feet at the base of the tree to the river. Even side views like this one required some caution so as not to fall into the rather deep and murky water. Several Ottawa POTN members and others had a great view of these birds over several weeks from the time liv2trip first discovered the male digging the hole to when the chicks finaly fledged.. I found the same thing the next day and it took several days for this sapsucker to carve out the home he built for his family.

For a view of this same bird digging out his home and likely my favourite Sapsucker photo see here

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=169312

And thanks also to kato1 for the comment:)

[Mr. E]

Nice shots- I've yet to see a sapsucker. I guess this one was making a housecall?

[dancinec]

Very cool shot there Gary, Well done.

[Stephen Stephen]

Very nice Gary. Hopefully they'll be back this summer.

[Airedale1]

Great image Gary and another really good example of camo. That bird is melting into that tree bark.

[village idiot]

What's a nice girl like you doing in a hole like this?

[Alex Paul]

Great shot Gary :) :)