[Leica] IMG: Wednesday Woodpeckers

[Douglas Barry]

Me too +1

Douglas


On 23/04/2020 16:19, CartersXRd via LUG wrote:
> what a wonderful set
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> i’m a fool for woodpeckers!
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> especially like the working shots with sawdust flying
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> ric
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>> On Apr 21, 2020, at 11:57 PM, Douglas Herr via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
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>> a tale of two species...
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>> the players: Nuttall's Woodpecker pair
>> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/picidae/dryobates/nuttallii/drynut06.html
>> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/picidae/dryobates/nuttallii/drynut08.html
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>> female Acorn Woodpecker
>> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/picidae/melanerpes/formicivorus/melfor12.html
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>> the scene: a dead cottonwood tree, Sacramento County California
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>> The Nuttall's pair has been working for several days excavating a nest cavity in a dead Cottonwood tree
>> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/picidae/dryobates/nuttallii/drynut09.html
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>> When I arrived on the morning of 19 April 2020 I saw the male Nuttall's remove something from the cavity that looked like an egg, then resume work on the cavity. Weird, I thought, let's keep watching.
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>> In the days since I first observed the Nuttall's pair working on the cavity, a colony of Acorn Woodpeckers moved in nearby. A female Acorn Woodpecker seemed unusually interested in the Nuttall's cavity
>> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/picidae/melanerpes/formicivorus/melfor13.html
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>> at this point the male Nuttall's raised the alarm
>> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/picidae/dryobates/nuttallii/drynut10.html
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>> Apparently Acorn Woodpeckers don't share nest trees. I also observed the female Acorn repeatedly use her face-chisel to try to stab the female Nuttall's who was inside the cavity.
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>> I'm guessing the Acorn Woodpecker left an egg in the Nuttall's nest cavity for the Nuttall's to hatch & raise, Mr. Nuttall's discovered the ruse and removed the Acorn Woodpecker egg sending Ms. Acorn into a tizzy.
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>> Meanwhile in another part of the woods a male Acorn Woodpecker was making another nest cavity
>> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/picidae/melanerpes/formicivorus/melfor10.html
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>> it's always the guys who take out the trash
>> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/picidae/melanerpes/formicivorus/melfor09.html
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>> all: Sony a7rIII, 600mm f/3 GM, big tripod.  Some with 1.4x TC.
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>> All comments welcome.
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>> Doug Herr
>> Birdman of Sacramento
>> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
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