2011/02/21

Black-cheeked Woodpecker - Melanerpes pucherani

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Black-cheeked Woodpecker - Melanerpes pucherani, male
NF Photo 110128 at Gavilan Lodge, Costa RIca

At the center of the area of Gavilan Lodge stood those dead trees. A great place for this woodpecker. It was a pair, but I only got the male photographed.

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World Bird Wednesday XIV
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17 kommentarer:

  1. Love that 3rd action shot. Great series of the Black-cheeked Woodpecker.

    I will post some more Hamerkop photos for you soon.

    SvaraRadera
  2. Great capture in the third shot.

    SvaraRadera
  3. Hiya,
    We left a few white birch trunks upstanding when the crowns had to come down. I have seen woodpeckers hammering, but so far they haven't built a nesting hole there yet.
    Should we give them a head start or would that put them off.

    SvaraRadera
  4. That's a nice series of photos. There are certainly enough holes for the bird to use.

    SvaraRadera
  5. Great looking woodpecker.Number three is the keeper shot. Boom & Gary of the Vermilon River, Canada.

    SvaraRadera
  6. The leap image is a fantasic capture. A lovely woodpecker.

    SvaraRadera
  7. Cool series on the woodpecker. The third shot is a great action shot.

    SvaraRadera
  8. agreed the leap image is great.... its almost suspended in flight.... well I guess thats what it is when you pressed the shutter. Super series of shots

    SvaraRadera
  9. Great series! Was he coming out of the hole on the second pic? The suspended picture is a miracle shot!

    SvaraRadera
  10. They look a bit like our woodpeckers here. Makes sense I suppose.

    SvaraRadera
  11. What a lovely bird he is!! In the third photo, is he jumping from the hole to another tree?
    amazing shot!!!
    Thank you for visiting!

    SvaraRadera
  12. Great series! love that mid-air photo, how cool!

    SvaraRadera
  13. Nice series of photos! That trunk looks like a WP apartment building! I love the shot of the bird looking out of the hole.

    SvaraRadera
  14. The second photo is fixed, I hope. :)
    Glad you liked it.

    SvaraRadera
  15. wonderful captures -- what a lovely bird!

    SvaraRadera

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