Woodie-II ( White Napped Female )

[Harshad Barve]

Dear All
made this with D300, 600mm+1.7x , ISO 400, handheld in Pench NP

All C & C are most welcome and much appreciated
Harshad

[Daniel Cadieux]

What a great looking species of woodpecker! Quite striking. What I like abou this image is the opposite leaning angles of the tree and bird, very cool. I wouldn't mind a bit less room at left, but still fine as is. The slowish 1/160s. SS has given the tip of the moving bill some some motion blur, and a bit more sharpnening for web presentation would be good...but overall sharpness is still quite impressive considering being handheld with those techs and focal lenght.

[Harshad Barve]

Thanks Daniel
Here is repost with some boost in sharpening , I hope there are no halos

[Gerrie van Vuuren]

Repost looking better. Like the pose, detail & colours. Well done!

[Chris Kotze]

Super looking bird. Repost looks great lovely colours and detail

[denise ippolito]

Harshad, Nice job HH this. The repost does look better. I like the composition and the details look good.

[Stu Bowie]

Cool looking woodie Harshad. I like detail and colours on him, and well done on the repost.

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Great looking species Harshad! Love the comp and well done HH as well. Almost a great HA too. So an excellent effort mate. :)

[Bill McCrystyn]

Good lookin' pecker as we'd say in Arkansas :D. Great job on the repost. I had never seen one of these.

[Marc Mol]

Repost an improvement Harshad, great color & BG.

[arash_hazeghi]

Impressive hand-holding technique Harshad, detail and colors are pretty good too!

[Dan Brown]

Awesome species! I really like the BG and sharpness. I'm thinking a better HA would be a big improvement, but, great job HH!

[Kiran Poonacha]

All said above, loved the soft light, good BG and Sharpness..

[Simon Bennett]

Interesting bird, and good job of capturing it so well hand-held.

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

I agree about this bird been very striking. In fact it reminds me of our Lineated Woodpecker.
The bark of the tree also looks familiar, may be an Erythrina? (Fabaceae)