Pileated Woodpecker.

[Karl Egressy]

This image is from 2009. I post it because it is from the same location as the one I posted the day before.
Back than I managed to capture the process of chiseling the hole out by the male and being inspected the result by the female.
This time I just hope that there will be little ones at this location and not somewhere else.
Thanks for looking

Canon 40D
Canon 500 f4.0 L IS +1.4x II.
ISO 250
f 7.1
1/400 s
tripod

[keith mitchell]

The inspection by the female reminds me of my wife checking my DIY, like the way it's making the wood fly, fine looking bird well taken Karl.

Keith.

[John Robinson]

Hi Karl
Great to see a woody doing what they do ! Like the BG too!
I,ve had Lesser Spots chucking stuff out from inside but never like this. Good one.
John

[Marina Scarr]

Luck you to have captured this behavior, Karl. You had golden light and a golden opportunity and you made the most of it. You did well with the high angle.

[Ivan Ellison]

Nice image, great to see the bird doing what it does. Nice and sharp esp with it in the process of digging out the hole, and with such a slow frame/sec rate!! - it was fast at the time and we all raved about it, how times change.

[Troy Lim]

Love the light and how you were able to time to get the head sharp.

[Joseph Przybyla]

Nice action image Karl, well timed and wonderful light. Thank you for sharing.

[Lorant Voros]

I love this one; fantastic behavior shot and action. I like the wood chips flying by and the perfect moment of the head not having any motion blur. Golden light is a plus. Congratulations, Karl.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Karl, great behaviour captured here, and I really like the flying wood. Overall nice and sharp and captured in good light.

[Ron Conlon]

Really wonderful to see him in action. Bravo!

[arash_hazeghi]

Great image Karl, love the pose details and the flying chunks of wood, only wish you were a bit higher
TFS

[Ritesh Nangare]

Excellent Freeze In the action , the wood chips looks great , the bird, light is Awesome.....

[Randy Stout]

Karl:

The essence of a wood pecker! Very well done, with the flying chips the capper!

Cheers

Randy

[Mike Poole]

Great timing shows of what the woodies do best!

[Jim Crosswell]

Great image Karl! I like the action, sharpness, exposure, details and composition.

[Robert Kimbrell]

Great image Karl, Nice golden light, but the flying wood chips really make the image.

[Satish Ranadive]

Excellent image. Spectacular action. Great exposure and details in blacks and whites, superb BG and composition.

Regards,
Satish.