ML97061971

Age and sex

Unknown age, Female - X

Media notes

Bird was seen in complete shade making photo difficult. Cranked up ISO to 1250 and f-stop down to 5 in order to get photos. Bird never came out into the light.

Observation details

Found purely by accident while hiking past the end of the Silverbrook Trail. Crossed the 2 little wooden bridges over the pond/natural spring and headed a bit further southwest on one of the trails. Heard a faint pecking near the base of some large pine trees and found a female BBWP about 3 feet off the ground. Observed for about 20 - 25 minutes and bird stayed on same tree. I took a LOT of photos and one photo showed her with some kind of insect larva in her bill. Did not appear to be stripping off a ton of bark like I've seen with others, but instead seemed to be working on deeper holes as other woodpeckers do.

Technical information

Model

NIKON D7200

ISO

1250

Focal length

340 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire, auto

f-stop

f/6.0

Shutter speed

1/200 sec

Dimensions

3559 pixels x 5338 pixels

Original file size

11.35 MB