1\/2500, f\/5.6, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM, not baited, set up or called in <\/em><\/p>\nThis was one of the pair of Red-naped Sapsuckers I photographed last week in Idaho\u00a0as they were feeding a single chick in their nest cavity. The adults would fly in\u00a0and land at the cavity, stuff insects\u00a0down the throat of the youngster and then leave the area\u00a0almost immediately. I had very few opportunities to photograph either bird doing\u00a0anything else.<\/p>\n
But this one surprised me when it flew to one of the branches of the nest tree and posed for a few seconds. I like this image because it’s such a different pose than I usually got and I also enjoy the similar angles of\u00a0the bird and the vertical branch at right.\u00a0This is most likely the male of the pair because it doesn’t have any white under the chin as the female often does but that trait is variable so I can’t be certain.<\/p>\n
To my eye two areas of the background of this shot look suspiciously like I might have done some amateurish cloning back there but I haven’t. All I’ve done to the image is crop, adjust exposure slightly\u00a0and selectively sharpen the bird and perch.<\/p>\n
Ron<\/p>\n
Note: We’ve been having some issues with an overloaded server so until we can get them resolved I’ll only be posting one or two images per post. Hopefully it won’t take long to solve the problem.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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I say “rare” because over four days this was one of the very few times I photographed either adult sapsucker when it wasn’t plastered against the nest cavity entrance.<\/p>\n
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