I captured this beauty yesterday! I love Woodpeckers. (Even though one of them put a small hole in my siding. 🙄) They are just such pretty birds!
I’ve been trying to get some photos of Woodpeckers, Red Cardinals, and Blue Jays for a while now. It is actually quite hard. I swear they are all in cahoots with each other. If I creep towards any one of them, every bird in the area takes off.
Luckily, Woodpeckers have obnoxious chirps, so if my house is quiet, I can hear when one is out back. It still took patience, and some hours, to get all of these photos. I just left my camera by the back door, and every time I heard it, I tried to get a photo.
Most of these photos were taken from inside my house, looking out of the glass on my back door, as I was afraid I would scare it away if I opened it. I was surprised to see that they still turned out pretty decent! (A few of them were actually taken outside, after I noticed it had been sitting on the same limb for quite some time.)
It was a pretty great moment to capture it stealing some dog food from the porch. This is probably the reason it kept coming to the back yard.
Thanks for reading and looking!
Peace. Love. And Thieving Birds.
E
