[OFB Cafe] Tilt/Shift Lens
Patrick Shanahan
patrick.shanahan at gmail.com
Thu Jul 24 21:11:28 CDT 2008
* dep <dep at drippingwithirony.com> [07-24-08 21:57]:
>
> irritating is that we have a substantial population of pileated woodpeckers
> around here -- think woody woodpecker, 18 inches tall. i've seem one near
> the house twice. once, one sunday morning, when it was raining, i went to
> the kitchen for coffee and there he was, hanging on to the side of one of
> the porch posts. but they're skittish and he took off before i could grab
> the camera. the other time, he was in a woodpile at the edge of the woods,
> and you could only see his head and neck from time to time. but that would
> be the real catch. that and the red-tail hawk that circles in the valley
> in front of the house. i'll get that one sometime.
I have a pair that feed several times a year on my soot feeder in
front of the house. I have not had occasion to photograph one but
will. I saw them three or four times last year but only once the year
before. I have not seen them this year.
Central Indiana.
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