Lovely setting Jim! And although I would have liked to see more of the tail....I really like this photograph!!! The composition is very nicely balanced with those flowers and the colours work very very well. Nice!
Tails are always a goood thing to have, but I watched this bird over 5 hours on 2 different days and unless it climbed up the stalk (which it did do at times thankfully), it was always somewhat shrouded by the large leaves on the plant.
Personally, I don't find the hidden tail horrible.....environmental shots are just that.
I considered myself lucky just to have a downy doing something other than feeding off the trunk of a tree :)
How delightful indeed to have one on a lovely green plant! This is a nice change, I don't think I ever see them other than on gray/brown tree trunks. I am not bothered by the tail not being very visable. I like the colors and the angle of the image.
Well done but moving a yard to your right would have had multiple advantages...
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While this may have allowed for a better angle on the subject, I would have lost the diffuse green background of the distant wetlands grasses and I would have run into some rather unatractive dead bushes which would have been to close to render them acceptably OOF.
This is a beautiful image. I have never seen woodpeckers perch on these kind of plants. The leaves at the bottom looks like a container for this bird. The colours and exposure are very pleasing for the eyes. I probably would have liked to see the side pose of this bird.