The female red-bellied woodpecker (left) brings food to a waiting male woodpecker. We don’t know if this is a juvenile male woodpecker or a stay-at-home dad.

A red-bellied woodpecker (maybe the same one) looks out from the nest we reported on in a our previous post.

The nest is about 40 feet up in a rotting birch tree. It has taken patience, luck, a long lens, a tripod, and just enough shutter speed for a decent image.

For many days we have seen red-bellied woodpeckers visiting our backwoods. This is a male with a seed or some other food. At this time, it was not obvious that he is perched at a hole in the side of this birch tree.

This identification is suspect; could be a male sapsucker or a downy woodpecker

The hardworking pileated woodpecker in our previous post moved on to this aging stump and pounded methodically for a half hour. He then visited another tree before departing.

Sometimes what you wish for just happens. After watching a pileated woodpecker fly out of the back yard one evening last week, I was going to set up to see him the next evening.

Then, around noontime, he stopped by our front door.

For whatever reasons, we have not seen a robin in our yard this year until last week.

As my brother would say: an LBT, little brown thing. I first thought was a sparrow and maybe a pine siskin, specifically. Interestingly, a photo in a local newspaper showed up and I think this is a hermit thrush. The bird was quite loud, another feature of this species of thrush.

Taken with a 600mm telephoto lens steadied on a deck railing near sunset pointing perhaps 20 yards into the tree tops. An amount of software post processing with exposure was also required.