Yellow Shafted Northern Flicker Nest

[Shawn Zierman]

This image was made a few years back. The nest was located in a tree that was in standing water in a beaver pond.
Looks like junior still has a bit of mom's tongue in it's bill.....Background has a distant tree top shown. SonyA300,
Tokina80-400, iso200, f10, 1/320, cropped, selective toning down of mom's yellow tail feathers and bright surfaces
on the tree, USM. Comments and critiques
always welcome.
Regards,
Shawn Zierman.

[Matthew Studebaker]

Exposure: spot on
Detail: excellent
Light: could you ask for any better? I think not
Pose: not only a perfect "field guide" profile pose, but interacting with a baby! wow!
Composition: good.

well done Shawn.

[Randy Stout]

Shawn:

Always fun to go back and revisit older images, often some real jewels in there! Matthew summarized it well. Good call on toning down the tree a bit, that can often be distracting on trunk shots like this in good light.

Good shooting angle for a woodpecker nest. Love the feet, tongue out, chick.

Cheers

Randy

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Excellent interaction captured and techs look great. Terrific image Shawn.

[Jon Swanson]

I really like the interaction in this capture Shawn. As well as the tongue sticking between the two :) Very nice!

[Satish Ranadive]

Shawn:
Excellent interaction captured.I like the beautiful bird with nice colors and black spots on it.
Love the composition,lights,details and nice BG.

Regards,
Satish.

[dankearl]

Very nice interaction and it is a really good angle for the view.

[David Salem]

Ditto on the interaction and I think the tongue still remaining is very cool. Techs look good and detail is very clean. I also like the tree griping stance the parent has with the raised feet. Well done Shawn.

[Karl Egressy]

Great interaction image, Shawn. I like the way the adult is slightly turning towards us showing its belly untertail and claws.

[Grace Scalzo]

Superb capture. Wonderful story telling.

[Robert Holguin]

Terrific shot!!!
Excellent interaction captured, very nice light, and great comp.
Very well done.

[Mike Veltri]

Great interaction captured Shawn, very nice.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Shawn, well timed to capture the feeding behaviour, and overall, captured in good light. I do like the overall colours - plenty to look at, and love the detail on the tree.