Thanks WAstinkbug for looking in and the kind comments. Over the past years I too have found that the adults are quite nervous (shy?) when feeding but usually the juveys are a bit more friendly. Haven't learned to be afraid of those big featherless creatures yet.

LittleRed (Ron)

Thanks Marshall for your kind comment. Your lucky you still have a patio window as these birds are really a-moving when at full speed. But keep trying sooner or later one will find your stash. I find that a homemade mixture of peanut butter (1 part), lard (1 part) flour (1 part) and corn meal (3 parts) is an excellent draw for these big birds. I know my characters will totally ignore the commercial blocks to get to my homemade stuff.

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Thanks Mike for the kind comment.

LittleRed (Ron)

Thanks for the comment on my posting. I always appreciate your comments. One of the reasons I'm still on this blog is because of you and some of your comrades such as Mark (the Jazz man) whom make it very interesting. Always look forward to hearing/seeing your wisdom regarding all aspects of photography. Keep up the excellent work. Again thanks for stopping in and commenting.

LittleRed (Ron)

Thanks Jeff for the nice comment, tis appreciated.

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Thanks for stopping in CHG_CANON. Yes, sometimes bigger is not necessarily better. I am sometimes hard pressed to get as good a picture with my 24MP camera than I could with this old 10 one. One on one the old camera was sometimes just as good if not better but it was missing a lot of the extras that I now have.

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This young lady we called Missy. As you can see she's quite the beauty. She was a juvenile female Pileated Woodpecker born in May of 2019 and after getting kicked out by her parents spent the summer mooching of us. A regular daily visitor that had a tendency to help herself to the suet if we were not quick enough to get it into her "log'. While I was filling up her feeder she would sit on our table and munch away out of the suet container. These pics document one such visit in late July. I was lucky to get these shots as normally I don't have a camera when making a quick refill of the feeders. But luckily I had one of my real old DSLR's on the table that I was getting ready to repurpose and wanted to check it out. A young lady down the street whom regularly visits to watch my feathered friends seemed interested in photography so I offered her one of my old camera's that were sitting in our library. I was an old Canon XTi (10 meg) that was just collecting dust. She gladly accepted it and late last fall she stopped by to show some of her pics. Happy to say that she's done real well with some excellent pics, even some very good BIF's. I'm happy to see that old camera has brought joy to somebody else rather than just sitting on a shelf.
I realize that these pics are quite old but I finally got the time to process some of my pics from last year. The result of taking too many pics and just archiving them for another day. I still have at least a couple thousand that I still have to play with.

LittleRed (Ron)

Portrait of a Pretty Young Lady


Where's da Food, I can smell it!!


Aha, it tis up on the table


Guess What I Found and it's all MINE!!!


Mighty fine stuff but could use a bit more peanut butter


Thanks Oldtimer for the snack, will see you tomorrow, same time

Great pic of a beautiful male showing off his colors. A real mirror destroyer of the southwest desert.

LittleRed (Ron)

Thank you Michael for looking in on my feathered friends and the gracious comment.

LittleRed (Ron)

Thanks Don for the kind comment, ‘tis appreciated.

LittleRed (Ron)

Thanks smilenangler for stopping by and the nice comment.

LittleRed (Ron)

Thanks Blair for the kind comment. Like I said before it is not usual to catch these birds together as one (the brown) is usually seen in a salt water area while the white is more an fresh water one. In all my years of birding I could probably count on my fingers the number of times I've seen them so close together. But the offer of a free meal is hard to ignore as these birds have proven in this instance.

LittleRed (Ron)

Thanks Swamp-Cork for the kind words. Sometimes you get lucky as this time for me. There were quite few more of these in the area but only these two would co-operate. Got quite close to them by staying motionless and the fact that they were more interested and locked onto the group of fishermen cleaning their catch at the fishing station. They were tossing the skin and guts to the crowd just below the station. Wish all the birds I have chased over the years would be this co-opertative. (fat chance)
Thanks again for looking in and commenting, always doubly appreciate especially for you.

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Thanks SafetySam for the thumbs-up. Tis appreciated.

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Thanks Earnest for looking and the kind comment. This pic was taken in your neck of the woods at Goose Island SP just north of Rockport. Fantastic birding area in the USA.

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