[Leica] Northern Flicker

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

Very nice. I bought a 55-200mm zoom which was promptly nationalized by
my son no.1 (-:
Cheers
Jayanand

On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 6:39 AM, H&E Cummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote:
> Hi Luggers,
> On Pender we live in a wooden cabin - some of the timbers used to build 
> the cabin were actually logged from the site.
> As well as hummingbirds and eagles we have varieties of wood eating birds 
> including the Pileated Woodpecker and
> most recently the Northern Flicker. Here are two pictures of a male 
> Northern Flicker which, with its mate, is doing
> its level best to eat my wooden cabin. We have hung up aluminum pie plates 
> in the eaves and balinese chimes at
> the corner of the roof to try and scare them away. So far we haven't had 
> much luck and it looks like I may have to call in
> an expert. The pictures:
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Canada2013/Male-Northern-Flickerw.jpg.html>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/kn9qfbs
>
> and another view:
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Canada2013/Northern-Flicker-2w.jpg.html>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/ltffvg5
>
> Both taken with the Fuji XE 1 and the 55 - 200 zoom - hand held and 
> processed and cropped in CS6.
>
> The fuji zoom is noticeably sharper than my old Nikon 300 f4.0 AF
>
> Please look large.
> C&C always welcome
>
> Howard.
>
>
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