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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Wednesday Woodpeckers
From: cartersxrd at gmail.com (CartersXRd)
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 11:19:47 -0400
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what a wonderful set

i?m a fool for woodpeckers!

especially like the working shots with sawdust flying

ric




> On Apr 21, 2020, at 11:57 PM, Douglas Herr via LUG <lug at 
> leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> a tale of two species...
> 
> 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
> 
> female Acorn Woodpecker
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/picidae/melanerpes/formicivorus/melfor12.html
> 
> the scene: a dead cottonwood tree, Sacramento County California
> 
> 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
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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
> 
> at this point the male Nuttall's raised the alarm
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/picidae/dryobates/nuttallii/drynut10.html
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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
> 
> it's always the guys who take out the trash
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/picidae/melanerpes/formicivorus/melfor09.html
> 
> all: Sony a7rIII, 600mm f/3 GM, big tripod.  Some with 1.4x TC.
> 
> All comments welcome.
> 
> 
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
> 
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