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    Default Downy Woodpecker

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    Another downy woodpecker which I was able to find down low, feeding on both insects and seeds from this plant.

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    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!

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    Hi Jim, you've got a Common Mullien plant there. Nice capture...

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    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 :)

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    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.

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    Well done but moving a yard to your right would have had multiple advantages...
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    Have to agree with Artie on this one, moving right would have revealed more of the bird. Nice sharp image and please OOF BG.

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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.

    I did give it a look :)

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    Great image! I love the perch.

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    Like it a lot Jim! It's always nice to get a woodpecker on an unusual but beautiful perch.
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    I really like this one because of the colors and the most unusual perch.

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    I would be thrilled to see a woodpecker on a pretty perch like this. I think you did a great job.

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    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.

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