Frozen stiff! ... Nuttall's Woodpecker (Picoides nuttallii)
Went out to sit in my chair and see what I could "capture" with my little camera. Seemed quiet. I looked up and spotted this little guy - frozen to his spot on the "Raywood" Ash Tree. For a full twenty minutes - I timed it - he sat there with virtually no movement at all except the occasional blinking of his eye. Finally he began turning his head and looking around and then, in a flash, he was gone.
He must have had a terrifyingly close call with the Cooper's Hawk just before I arrived. A few others were stark still, as well, but none for as long as this male Nuttall's.
Frozen stiff! ... Nuttall's Woodpecker (Picoides nuttallii)
Went out to sit in my chair and see what I could "capture" with my little camera. Seemed quiet. I looked up and spotted this little guy - frozen to his spot on the "Raywood" Ash Tree. For a full twenty minutes - I timed it - he sat there with virtually no movement at all except the occasional blinking of his eye. Finally he began turning his head and looking around and then, in a flash, he was gone.
He must have had a terrifyingly close call with the Cooper's Hawk just before I arrived. A few others were stark still, as well, but none for as long as this male Nuttall's.