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Yesterday´s late afternoon at the university campus I was lucky enough to capture some shots of a female Blond-crested Woodpecker foraging for fruits.
The light was poor so I needed ISO 1600, a wide open lens, and a monopod.
Shots wer ~10-11m away.


Acrobatic skills while foraging:


Female Blond-crested Woodpecker by labecoaves, on Flickr

D7000 + Nikkor 400mm f/5.6 K ED ai\'d + monopod, ISO 1600, wide open at 1/200s.
When foraging these small fruits this woodpecker displayed her acrobatic skills.


Eating fruit:


Female Blond-crested Woodpecker eating fruits by labecoaves, on Flickr

D7000 + Nikkor 400mm f/5.6 K ED ai\'d + monopod, ISO 1600, wide open at 1/160s.
Frugivory is not uncommon among some woodpecker species, like this one.


I am not a PP expert, but the auto colour correction resulted in a bluish cast that I did not like. I preferred the magenta cast. The fruits are exacly this colour, light pink/purple; it was late afternnon on a cloudy sky.

It seems at most birding forums one can only take bird pictures with the latest AF-S, VRIII, nano, etc lenses, but people often forget until mid or late 1980s all bird shots were taken with MF glass. I am glad this 40 years old lens still can perform well at the digital age.



Jun 20, 2013 at 06:35 AM





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