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What a beautiful bird and well taken photo! I've never had a good look at one of these before....we don't have them here.
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well, you guys have some even more colorful birds that we don't have around here - unless they escape from cages.
thanks
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(french, sorry, not enough vocabulary in english lol 
Ahh j'aime beaucoup celle-ci! La photo est très nette et le fond de verdure fait ressortir les 3 couleurs de l'oiseau! De plus, les petites baies rouges derrière renvoient à la couleur la plus chatoyante du pic! 
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lol... i had to go to babelfish.com to translate this... and this is what they came up with:
"I like much this one! The photograph is very clear and the bottom of greenery emphasizes the 3 colors of the bird! Moreover, the small red bays behind return to the color more chatoyante of the peak"
i had seen the word "derrière" and wondered what you were saying - we use that word in english, but for only one thing - a certain part of the human body
in your case, i think you meant it to mean "background"
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Looool, yes, background lol
It's one of the reason that I don't really like this kind of translator on the net lol
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it's not perfect, i know, but it helps - or at least it gives us something to laugh about
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you're much kind. thank you for the fave
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Wow, fantastic shot! This looks like Red-Naped Sapsucker, either a juvenile male or a juvenile female would be my guess...you've managed to capture so much detail, I love how clear some of the feathers are, I only wish the image were larger so you could see more of the detail...the composition is great, I think you made a wise choice placing this fellow in the center, where usually is looks better with the subject slightly offset...the berries/flowers in the background really accentuate the red on this guys throat and crown...the saturation and color balance seem to be dead-on, you've got a great camera, and the frame is very nice, not so big to detract from the image, but also not unicolor, which, in this case, does quite well...Very nice shot, and you have captured well the telltale signs of a sapsucker having visited: all those areas of the branch he is on where the bark has been chipped away enough to be able to let the sap flow..great job
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are red naped sapsuckers also woodpeckers? i always assumed they were eating some kind of grub or worm inside the wood - i guess that doesn't really make sense, though, that perfectly healthy trees would be infested with so many
i really liked the red sorbus berries in the background complimenting the red in the bird too.
were you able to look at the other pics in the series? you might have found the details you were looking for in them.
thanks for the comments - i appreciate them - especially since they were all complementary
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Sapsuckers and woodpeckers are related, but they have different feeding behaviors. Woodpeckers are the usual caterpillar and bark insect eaters, Sapsuckers occasionally eat insects from the bark, but their diet predominantly consists of drinking the sap of trees. Unfortunately, sapsuckers often make trees very susceptible to fungal infections because they open a wound into the living tissue of the tree, allowing fungus and bacteria to take hold. But of all the trees I've seen with Sapsucker marks, I have never seen one that looks unhealthy. I took a look at your other Sapsucker pictures, they also were great, but I liked this one best. I am almost sure of the species, itis just hard to tell whether he is male or female because he looks like he's halfway between both, like he's just starting to get in his adult plumage. Very beautiful species though, we don't have them around here, but I'm glad I had a chance to see one through your photo
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Wow what a nice pic. It's very well composed and the depth of field really makes the woodpecker stand out.. 
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and would you believe it was shot through a grungy window?
thanks for the nice comment
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the entire set is excellent ..this one is the best of the four imo but all four are fine.
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thanks (now i'm going to have to go back and look at the other 3 - don't remember what they look like 
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all your woodpecker pictures are beautiful... i like the colours and the blurry background, it adds to the picture... also it looks so natural...
beautiful!
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thank you
most wildlife photos have blurry backgrounds - because most animals will not allow humans very close - so the photos must be shot with a telephoto (or zoom) lens with a shallow depth of field.
but it is also good because it forces the focus of the photo to always be on the animal
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wow, this woodpecker set is nice...your pictures are always so clear~ how close were you to bird when this was taken?
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maybe five feet away? i did use my zoom, but still, it was pretty darned close
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my camera couldn't have done that! i'm actually pretty surprised sometimes, because what seems so near to me seems to be so different with the camera's view...i guess this is what happens when you don't take formal photography training o.O
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my sony dsc f717, has a pretty massive zoom, not to mention an exceptionally good carl zeiss lens
i haven't really had formal training either, just, ironically, a couple of black and white dark room classes in college.
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This shot is so good it could feature in a calendar. Bravo!
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