I’m home today waiting on a plumber to come and fix a leaking pipe in the ceiling. Since I am home in the daylight I took the opportunity to break out the 300mm telephoto lens and see if I could catch the Sapsucker in action.
He’s losing his fear of me and tends to just go to the other side of the tree trunk as I circle him. I backed off and was able to squeeze off a few shots.
Look how his markings blend with the tree!
And in this next picture notice how the red on his head mimics the redness of the holes he’s pecked in the tree trunk…
Tags: Birdwatching
This is so cool. I scrolled right past the bird in the first photo. That is some wicked camouflage.
You lie. There’s no bird in those photos.
[...] and heard this guy outside. He was pecking to beat the band. I believe him to be a sapsucker as spotted previously but I could be mistaken. He’s very high up in the neighbor’s tree, but the SAL-70300G [...]