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The three nicest ones I have at the moment. I hope to get many more :)

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MrFotoFool said:
As a relatively new member, I am glad to see a themed thread like this. I would love to see more themed threads on BCG Forums.
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Same here.
Seems like things get buried faster then they do on fb.
Lewis Woodpecker.

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Where I live, there's lots of confusion between Hairy Woodpeckers and Downy Woodpeckers. While they both look very similar, there are differences. The Hairy is larger than the Downy over all. The Hairy has a bigger beak and the Downy has black on the white of its tail. We don't see Hairys here often, but when we see them, we get pretty excited about them. Western PA. The first photo is a Hairy the second is a Downy.
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The Downy Woodpecker pair in my neighborhood has discovered the suet feeder, and they pause for a moment on the adjacent oak tree before helping themselves to a free lunch. Note the buffy wash on the underparts, typical of a Pacific Coast bird (ssp. turati) vs. white of an eastern bird.
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Doug Herr said:
The Downy Woodpecker pair in my neighborhood has discovered the suet feeder, and they pause for a moment on the adjacent oak tree before helping themselves to a free lunch. Note the buffy wash on the underparts, typical of a Pacific Coast bird (ssp. turati) vs. white of an eastern bird.
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Great shots! I didn't know there was a difference between western and eastern Downies!
 
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Love woodpeckers. The most common one we have near where I live are the acorn woodpeckers, so have many shots of these guys. So have included one below of them as well as two from my travels, the Magellanic woodpecker (Patagonia) and a black-rumped flameless woodpecker (India):
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Wow, some great shots. Envious of all of you out west with so many more species and even more so of all the pileated shots. I have never been able to get a decent shot of a pileated; they are way to wary for me. Also the red-headed; what a beautiful bird; but seen very rarely where I am at. I have some red-bellied I would have to dig up but here is a spot-breasted woodpecker from northern Brazil.


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Last spring's road trip from Sacramento to Ontario Canada via southeast Arizona yielded several woodpecker photos.

Gila Woodpecker, Pima County Arizona

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Arizona Woodpecker, Santa Cruz County Arizona

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Ladder-backed Woodpecker, Santa Cruz County Arizona

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Red-headed Woodpecker, Essex County Ontario

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Red-bellied Woodpecker, Essex County Ontario

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Until recently (Spoiler Alert!) my photos of the big, dramatic Pileated Woodpecker were nothing to get excited about. Several trips to likely areas were fruitless and I'd pretty much assigned the bird to my nemesis list which BTW is quite long.

I spent a few days camped at California's Calaveras Big Trees State Park, one of those "can't miss 'em" spots. I spent two days hiking the trails with a much too big camera resulting in a very few distant views in the very very tall forest canopy.

My last evening in the park I was preparing dinner at my campsite when I heard the unmistakable pounding of a large face-chisel on a dead tree. Shoving dinner in the bear box, I grabbed the camera & tripod and followed the sound which turned out to be no more than 50 meters from my campsite.

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This encounter, like several before and since, is why I'd much rather camp overnight than stay in lodging.
 
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