"Are you looking at me?"
Male Northern (Red-Shafted Flicker). This is another image from my May 2018 trip to British Columbia.
While walking a nature trail in Nanaimo I heard hammering. I looked up a saw a large hole in a dead tree but couldn't see the bird. I stood there quietly trying to tell if it was on the opposite of the tree trunk.
Suddenly a head popped out of the hole. I didn't want to move and startle the bird so I waited. Finally he came out onto a branch and began to preen. I was too close for a shot with my 500mm lens and the angle was bad so I slowly moved away as best I could and took a few frames without disturbing him.
Image created on May 11, 2018 in Buttertubs Park, Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
"Are you looking at me?"
Male Northern (Red-Shafted Flicker). This is another image from my May 2018 trip to British Columbia.
While walking a nature trail in Nanaimo I heard hammering. I looked up a saw a large hole in a dead tree but couldn't see the bird. I stood there quietly trying to tell if it was on the opposite of the tree trunk.
Suddenly a head popped out of the hole. I didn't want to move and startle the bird so I waited. Finally he came out onto a branch and began to preen. I was too close for a shot with my 500mm lens and the angle was bad so I slowly moved away as best I could and took a few frames without disturbing him.
Image created on May 11, 2018 in Buttertubs Park, Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.