Wood peckers...

[GeneMan88]

I was out & about in my neighborhood and stumbled upon this wood pecker making a hole in a tree for he & his mate. I don't usually take photos of birds, but I thought this was interesting... I was carrying my 70-200 f/4 at the time. These photos have been cropped & enhanced on PhotoShop... sorry about the quality, I had to save them at low quality in order to keep within the 100kb file size.

[RbrtPtikLeoSeny]

Those things are so annoying. So noisy.

[CyberDyneSystems]

Flickers! I love them,. very attractive birds :)
Nice shots.

[Homer]

Do you know what type of woodpecker that is? I was out today and saw the same kind. I'm not very good with my bird species..

[robertwgross]

CDS called it.

Northern Flicker.

---Bob Gross---

[Alan B]

Nice shots you got there :cool:

I have a wood up the road from where i live,with a couple of Wood peckers.I did try to take a pic of them but where ever i was they were the other side of the wood :evil: .I know where they're hole in the tree is,so i'll go and sit in a bush and play the waiting game :lol:

[blue_max]

This is "our" version in North London. It's a very different bird. Taken with the thick end of a 100-300 Non usm very old lens.

Graham

[Devoid of Orbit]

Those are pretty cool...I guess that is why you should always have your camera around just in case you run across something interesting...

[cmM]

Those things are so annoying. So noisy.
Actually, I like the noise they make while "hammering" trees.