Pair of Pileated Woodpeckers: For the Woodpecker lovers, I shot this from my office window about 2 years ago with my Sony DSC-10. Rate shot to get the pair in the same picture. This...

dggeiser Loc: Pittsboro, NC

For the Woodpecker lovers, I shot this from my office window about 2 years ago with my Sony DSC-10. Rate shot to get the pair in the same picture. This shot gave me the incentive to get a D7000 and a 18-300mm lens. I hope I get another photo op for this pair.

Pileated Woodpecker

lovemypups Loc: Kentucky

Very, very cool! These birds are really something to see :)
Debbie

dggeiser Loc: Pittsboro, NC

Thanks. I hear them in the woods most days and every once in awhile I get to see them.

Turbo Loc: Raleigh, NC

Very nice ! those birds are hard to catch

EarthArts Loc: Schenectady,NY

Very nice, dggeiser. I have been chasing a pair around the woods behind our house all spring. I am beginning to believe they think it is a game :). One I enter the woods I can hear them laughing. They will not stay in one spot long enough to even focus. This is quickly becoming a cat and mouse challenge :)

tracer58 Loc: Oregon, Ohio

EarthArts wrote:

Very nice, dggeiser. I have been chasing a pair around the woods behind our house all spring. I am beginning to believe they think it is a game :). One I enter the woods I can hear them laughing. They will not stay in one spot long enough to even focus. This is quickly becoming a cat and mouse challenge :)

And it's the challenge that keeps us happily searching for more! Good luck!:D

cameranut Loc: North Carolina

dggeiser wrote:

For the Woodpecker lovers, I shot this from my office window about 2 years ago with my Sony DSC-10. Rate shot to get the pair in the same picture. This shot gave me the incentive to get a D7000 and a 18-300mm lens. I hope I get another photo op for this pair.

I accidentally double clicked and was amazed at the sharpness. Super lucky and super job on these wp's. :thumbup: :thumbup:

CLF Loc: Raleigh, NC

dggeiser wrote:

For the Woodpecker lovers, I shot this from my office window about 2 years ago with my Sony DSC-10. Rate shot to get the pair in the same picture. This shot gave me the incentive to get a D7000 and a 18-300mm lens. I hope I get another photo op for this pair.

A very rare bird around here. Nesting pairs have changed here highway, byways go. Excellent capture and I thank them for pushing you on.

Greg

Bret Loc: Dayton Ohio

Nice. I think it mite be 2 females...I see a dab of yellow on each one.

Jana-TAS Loc: Washington

Nice shot! I can tell it is 2 females. Both black mustache and both red on the head does not go all the way to the beak. The one on the right is just the adult and left young female with how it's red is more "bushy". The mama is prob. looking for something to feed the young one.