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I never saw a Pileated Woodpecker until one of our Sugar Maples died - but since 2009 this pair of Pileateds has visited this tree regularly. I happened to be outside with my camera yesterday when they flew into the yard. Not a prize-winning shot - I need a longer lens for that! - but my best yet of this pair.
The Pileated Woodpecker is one of the biggest, most striking forest birds on the continent. It’s nearly the size of a crow, black with bold white stripes down the neck and a flaming-red crest. Look (and listen) for Pileated Woodpeckers whacking at dead trees and fallen logs in search of their main prey, carpenter ants, leaving unique rectangular holes in the wood. The nest holes these birds make offer crucial shelter to many species including swifts, owls, ducks, bats, and pine martens.
Cool Facts: A Pileated Woodpecker pair stays together on its territory all year round. It will defend the territory in all seasons, but will tolerate new arrivals during the winter.
Food: The Pileated Woodpecker’s primary food is carpenter ants, supplemented by other ants, woodboring beetle larvae, termites, and other insects such as flies, spruce budworm, caterpillars, cockroaches, and grasshoppers. They also eat wild fruits and nuts, including greenbrier, hackberry, sassafrass, blackberries, sumac berries, poison ivy, holly, dogwood, persimmon, and elderberry. In some diet studies, ants constituted 40 percent of the diet, and up to 97 percent in some individuals. Occasionally, Pileated Woodpeckers visit backyard bird feeders for seeds or suet.
- www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Pileated_Woodpecker/lifehistory
It seemed they were always in pairs. Loyality to their mates. Rainbow Lorikeets in Queensland, AUS.
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So much better to be lucky than good. Hearing the recognizable Red-Bellied Woodpecker call, I searched the trees until I spotted one at the very top of a limbless dead tree. It was on a riverbank, so shooting angle was problematic. I moved around, lining up the shot, firing away to make certain I got something.
I could hear a second bird calling from a distance...but was occupied. Surprisingly, the second Red Belly flew right in with the first, stayed for perhaps a ten count, and then left. Because the camera was already at my eye...bingo.
Note to self on Using The Camera 101: I was having a problem dialing in +EV on the new camera. Using 'normal' settings, everything was coming out way overexposed, but looking normal on the LCD monitor!!! Duh! It helps to set the monitor brightness to reflect the final exposure. ** Jeesh...rookie mistake! **
No EXIF data here because the exposure was quite wrong for the conditions.
One of the few remaining coal sector livery CL60's in 2002 60060 James Watt leads one of the 2 grey Loadhaul livery loco's 60070 John Loudon McAdam with 7b66 10:45 Westbury Up TC - Newport ADJ engineers at Ladydown Trowbridge on 26th June 2002.
A pair of Razorbills, (Alca torda) greeting each other on the cliffs at Bempton, East Yorkshire, UK.
A pair of Freightliner Class 66s Nos 66418 and 66594 NYK Spirit of Kyoto pull the 09:32 Southampton M.C.T. to Garston F.L.T. containers through Washwood Heath, Birmingham on 17th May 2016.
With the J 666 passing Milepost 13, you couldn't imagine anything good coming out of this.
Well, it's tightly cropped because some assface foamer took up position for a generic wedgie grade crossing shot which forced me to quickly recompose.
It sucks when you know a pair of J motors are on the way and you are staked out at a location for an hour and a half and then some Dingus pulls up to the crossing as the train approaches and cockblocks your shot. There ought to be a law against foamers...
CPKC loaded grain (100 cars) with a pair of KCS ET44ACs, #5022 and #5002, as power on the Pittsburg Sub at 12th St in KCMO.
Next time I'll take a few hard copy pictures to their owner for the pleaseure they bring me. They just shine too much to get the right colour on the digital camera.... yet!
Green Darner coupled pair - Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge (Brigantine Division), Jen's Trail fresh water pond, Oceanville, New Jersey
Rather than simply dropping their eggs into the water like the Meadowhawks, these guys deposit their eggs on the stems of submerged plants, and in order to ensure the eggs remain submerged the female will reach as far down the stem as she can without drowning. The male clasps her by the neck throughout the entire egg laying process, both to ensure that no other males will mate with her, and to pull her out of the water if she gets swamped by an unexpected wave.
These guys were about 10 or 15 feet offshore so a 600 mm lens with 60 mm of X-Tubes (and water-proof hiking shoes) made this capture possible.
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Is there anything better than walking in a woodland in Springtime, surrounded by a carpet of bluebells, with sun shining through fresh green beech leaves?
Perhaps only when there are also orchids?
Aerial acrobatics aka courtship dance, as a pair of Meadow Argus butterflies, Junonia villida, circle each other in a remote paddock in far northern Australia.
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About the only thing you can see clearly is their sexual dimorphism; male on the left and female on the right.
A pair of unidentified class 390 Pendolinos await their next duties at London Euston station on 30-08-10.
This kestrel pair have returned to the nest box on the electricity pylon at the kingfisher hub at RSPB Rye Meads
This special exhibition in Castle Howard by internationally renowned artist Sir Tony Cragg includes several large-scale sculptures in the Gardens, as well as sculptures and works on paper in the historic rooms of the House.
Sir Tony Cragg is an internationally renowned sculptor. He was born in Liverpool in 1949 and in 1977
moved to live and work in Wuppertal Germany, where he has ever since. He first came to widespread
critical attention in the 1980s, when he became known as a leading light of the ‘New British Sculpture’
movement.
This work in the Octagon - Wood, 2015
Pair is a two-part, unpainted sculpture that reveals the means of its construction: stacked plywood that has been carved and sanded into shape. As with his other columns, forms extend, stretch, rotate, spin and even dance. It is tempting to read Pair as a dancing couple, each oscillating figure displaying its own idiosyncratic rhythms and movements.
This is Castle Howard’s first ever headline contemporary sculpture exhibition. Enjoy the artworks set against the backdrop of the beautiful Gardens and landscapes, and inside the magnificent House.