I recently spent a few days at Audubon Kern River Reserve in California looking for this bird. Mostly I heard them and saw them high up in the oak trees. On my last day this little guy landed in a bush in front of me at eye level. It was late in the day and I did not have the speed that I would like to have for a woodpecker but he did pause occasionally as he moved around the bush pecking for insects.
Nikon D3S, 500mm f4 plus 1.4 converter
ISO 1600, f5.6, 1/250sec
Manual exposure







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