On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:43:52 +0000, Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Off work for a couple of days as I'm working this weekend, lunch under > the grill, and I look out of the window to find this chap on the feeder. > He's awkwardly placed as these nuts are meant for the tits (whoa > Beavis....) and he's a bit big to be there. I looked him up and he's an > adult male Great Spotted Woodpecker, a common bird in these parts, but > I've never seen one close up before. > > <http://www.cottysnaps.com/snaps/nature/images/pic23.html> > > zoom + 2X (400mm actual) on a 1.3x sensor, ISO 400 1/125th wide open at > 5.6 grabbed through a window. Got a dozen shots before he fell off / > exited stage left. >
He's trying so hard to look cool, as if he did it on purpose, but it ain't working. <g> Great grab, Cotty! cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
