Female Downy Woodpecker

[Stuart Edwards]

I had 7 bluejays in my backyard last week and they are usually very tolerant of me, so I went out and set up a stump with some peanuts. Right when i got the camera set up , this tiny woodpecker shows up and chased them all away . I didn't see them for the rest of the day.
Had I known she wanted her picture taken i would have set up a smaller perch , but then the bluejays would have probably used it ha ha ha.
I cropped quite a bit from the left to remove most of the out of focus stump , I also used neat noise reduction on the background and used smartsharpen on the bird in photoshop.
1DIV 400mm f7.1 , 1/400 , iso 2500

[keith mitchell]

Blacks and whites of the bird look really good ,wonder how this bird would look a little lower down the trunk just my personal view of course.

Keith.