That's great news, Angela and ours melted before yesterday was over, and that's the good thing about being so late in the season as it usually doesn't stay around very long!...Glad to hear the good news about the Ospreys and it's great having them back with us and hope we will be spared another nor'easter for awhile! We just made it back from the grocery store and Bella has already found her new toy in one of the bags--tough life, but it's great! You guys take care!

Last Friday while working at the desktop I happened to glance out a nearby window which overlooks the front lawn and noticed what I initially thought were two squirrels playing near the base of a very old black walnut tree were two pileated woodpeckers! I grabbed my camera which had the 150-600 lens attached and went into an adjacent room which had a little better angle of view from its window, and quietly eased up the bottom sash enough to allow the barrel of the lens through and had fired off several rapid shots before I noticed the "E" appearing on the right side of the viewfinder and realized that I had failed to replace the memory card after using it to download some images the night before. I ran back and retrieved the card. Now again looking through the viewfinder I realized that instead of two pileated, we now had only one, plus a pair of northern yellow-shafted flickers and they were feeding on something inside of three sizable holes that they had drilled near the base of the old tree. I think that the prey were carpenter ants and the woodpeckers were feeding on the ones within the tree and apparently the ones on the ground! All images were taken from a distance of 90 feet, so moved our rolling blind (a little camper van) to shorten the distance and spent about three hours waiting the next morning with no results other than a few decent images of other small birds.

Last Friday while working at the desktop I happened to glance out a nearby window which overlooks the front lawn and noticed what I initially thought were two squirrels playing near the base of a very old black walnut tree were two pileated woodpeckers! I grabbed my camera which had the 150-600 lens attached and went into an adjacent room which had a little better angle of view from its window, and quietly eased up the bottom sash enough to allow the barrel of the lens through and had fired off several rapid shots before I noticed the "E" appearing on the right side of the viewfinder and realized that I had failed to replace the memory card after using it to download some images the night before. I ran back and retrieved the card. Now again looking through the viewfinder I realized that instead of two pileated, we now had only one, plus a pair of northern yellow-shafted flickers and they were feeding on something inside of three sizable holes that they had drilled near the base of the old tree. I think that the prey were carpenter ants and the woodpeckers were feeding on the ones within the tree and apparently the ones on the ground! All images were taken from a distance of 90 feet, so moved our rolling blind (a little camper van) to shorten the distance and spent about three hours waiting the next morning with no results other than a few decent images of other small birds.