ML24719341
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Observation details
While looking up in a huge tree at what I thought might be our first of the season Western Kingbird, near the beginning of the 10th golf course hole, the one I always bird because it has a easement beside it and because it leads up into Whitehouse Canyon , I suddenly saw woodpecker like movement in the tree, and thought "cool, a Ladder-backed Woodpecker", and once I got my scope on it, I realized that I had a Red-breasted sapsucker again. After a few minutes I suddenly saw more movement, and realized there were two of them. Thankfully, after a few more minutes, they came out of the huge tree, and first went over to some big creosote bushes, and then one went back to the big tree and the other one went over to a Pepper tree. Curtis Marantz has looked carefully at my pictures and has come to the conclusion that one of the two is not only a Red-breasted Sapsucker, Curtis thinks it is the same bird that I saw on January 9, 2016 that was the very rare in this part of California "northern" version of this type of sapsucker. Curtis however, thinks that the other bird is a Red-naped x Red-breasted hybrid Sapsucker and has asked me to separate it into another class and to move its pictures to that spot, which I have done. I've attached here some of my best pictures of the full Red-breasted Sapsucker of "Northern " heritage. .
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D3200
- ISO
- 500
- Focal length
- 200 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/500 sec
- Dimensions
- 6016 pixels x 4000 pixels
- Original file size
- 6.37 MB