Pretty Lady
by Lois Bryan
Title
Pretty Lady
Artist
Lois Bryan
Medium
Photograph - Photography / Digital Art
Description
Backlit by the soft spring light, a pretty female red-bellied woodpecker perches in a leafless beech tree on an early April afternoon.
She and her mate are some of my favorite visitors to our bird feeder. They love suet cakes but always let the smaller birds have a taste, too. Here's what the Cornell Lab of Ornithology has to say about the Red Bellied Woodpecker:
"Red-bellied Woodpeckers are pale, medium-sized woodpeckers common in forests of the East. Their strikingly barred backs and gleaming red caps make them an unforgettable sight � just resist the temptation to call them Red-headed Woodpeckers, a somewhat rarer species that's mostly black on the back with big white wing patches. Learn the Red-bellied's rolling call and you�ll notice these birds everywhere."
You can hear their fun calls and learn a bit more about them from the Cornel link included here:
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Red-bellied_Woodpecker/sounds
Photographic image captured in April of 2013 with the Nikon D7000 and the 70-200mm f/2.8 lens. A beautiful texture from Jai Johnson enhances the background.
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Comments (45)
Maggie Terlecki
Oh, she really is pretty, isn't she? And such a wonderful composition too! :-) Maggie
Guy Ricketts
Beautiful woodpecker capture with incredible color and detail enhanced by the softened background - excellent! v/f
Geoff Crego
Lois, beautifully composed and exposed; charming capture; wonderful color and lighting. f/v
Phyllis Kaltenbach
Beautiful! Congratulations, Lois, your wonderful image has been featured on "Fuzzy, Warm and Soft"!