Hairy woodpecker

[joel quenneville]

This hairy woodpecker was eating from a hanging suet feeder on a windy day at a local marsh. I set up my tripod about 20 ft. from the feeder. Every now and then, a gust of wind would swing the feeder so hard that he would fly to nearby tree trunk. This gave me the oportunity to capture this image. A couple disturbing branches were cloned out in photoshop.


1/640s
f/5.6
ISO 200
Sigma 120-300 f/2.8 with 1.4x teleconverter @ 420mm
D70s

[Alfred Forns]

Looks excellent Joel I like the bg how well the bird looks and feel !!!! Would suggest cropping so there is only tree to the left Will make a stronger image I like this image a lot !!!!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great exposure control and details, Joel. I agree with Al's cropping suggestion.

[Glenn Bartley]

A very nice image. I'm not crazy about the lighter area in the BG. In terms of composition I'd take a bit off of the left - just to the bottom of the trunk and also some off of the right.

[joel quenneville]

How is this? In addition to cropping some off the edges, I also cropped a little tighter all round.