Greater flameback Woodpecker

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

Hand held with the 500 II Camera	Canon EOS 7D
Exposure	0.001 sec (1/800)
Aperture	f/4.0
Focal Length	500 mm
ISO Speed	800
Exposure Bias	0 EV

[Dave Leroy]

Lovely color on the back. Nicely exposed and lots of sharp detail. A nice head turn would have been great but not always easy to get.

[gail bisson]

A lovely bird.
Well done HH at 1/800. Whites and reds look great.
I would crop from the top to make this more a pano.This would reduce the impact of the large branch as well.
I wish for more exposure down by the tail and would clone out the ? line in the blue BG that is running from the forehead to the tip of the bill.
This could also work if you rotated the image CCW 90 degrees to make a vertical!
I like the blues and greens in the BG.
Gail

[Karl Egressy]

Love the hanging down pose and the nice colours.

[Peter Dexter]

Wonderful woodpecker and pose. Agree with pano crop suggestion.

[Satish Ranadive]

Beautiful image of beautiful bird.Nice colors and details.

Regards,
Satish.