Female Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker dropped by for a visit

<p><strong>The grape jelly I put out a couple days ago in hopes that a rare (to me) Baltimore Oriole would return and stick around hasn’t helped with the Oriole yet.</strong><br /><strong>But to my surprise, another seldom seen bird showed up at the grape jelly yesterday morning then came back in the afternoon…a pretty Female Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker.</strong><br /><strong>She never touched the mealworms or peanut butter…just kept burying its beak down into the grape jelly…was out there at it again at first light this morning...hope she sticks around, builds a nest, and I get additional shot opportunities of the nest, the fledglings, etc. </strong><br>

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<strong>YESTERDAY EARLY MORNING ARRIVAL - CANON FDn 300/4.0</strong><br>

<strong><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v630/roundball/PHOTOGRAPHY/BIRDS/WOODPECKERS/YELLOW-BELLIED%20SAPSUCKER/022215%20Yellow-Bellied%20Sapsucker%20at%20grape%20jelly%2001%20LR_zpsnv2bdxop.jpg" alt="" width="733" height="740" /></strong></p>

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<strong>YESTERDAY LATE AFTERNOON RETURN - CANON FDn 400/4.5</strong><br>

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v630/roundball/PHOTOGRAPHY/BIRDS/WOODPECKERS/YELLOW-BELLIED%20SAPSUCKER/022215%20Yellow-Bellied%20Sapsucker%20at%20grape%20jelly%2021%20LR_zpsd3ec0pz4.jpg" alt="" width="719" height="800" /></p>

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<p>The photos of these beautiful birds would look more natural if the food did not always appear on a flat surface which has been cut with a saw. A branch could be attached to the flat area and some food could be put on the branch. Also, the large amount of peanut butter doesn't look very natural.</p>

<p>I'm always open to learning things...posting up a few dozen of your bird photos could be helpful as a guide, thanks</p>

<p>Attaching a branch or something else to the tree stump would make it <strong>less</strong>, not more, natural, IMHO! The focus of these beautiful shots are the birds themselves, and the subjects have been captured so beautifully with old FD glass!</p>

<p>Thanks Bill, for putting new life into these old FD lenses.</p>

 

<p><strong>Yes, our old FD lenses are as stellar today as they were back in the 80's.</strong><br /> <strong><br />And I guess I should have passed on the photo below being taken on a tree trunk that had been cut off with a chainsaw.</strong><br /> <br /> <strong>Meanwhile I'm waiting for the individual above to post up a couple dozen of his top quality examples of pure natural environment looking bird photos so I can continue along my learning curve.</strong></p>

<p><br /> <strong>RED SHOULDERED HAWK WITH BROWN THRASHER FOR BREAKFAST...ZEROED IN ON THE SHUTTER NOISE.</strong><br /> <br /> <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v630/roundball/PHOTOGRAPHY/BIRDS/HAWKS%20and%20OWLS/RED%20SHOULDERED%20HAWK%20with%20BROWN%20THRASHER%20112614/112614-AB%20Red%20Shouldered%20Hawk%20-%20Brown%20Thrasher%20Breakfast%20006%20PBS50%20LR_zpswm7xb7uj.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p><strong>She came back again this afternoon !</strong><br>

<strong>That’s 2 mornings and 2 afternoons, right to that tree trunk feeder with the grape jelly in the top. Looks like I may have a ‘resident-in-the-making’…just refreshed the grape jelly in case she gets here at the crack of dawn tomorrow morning…don’t want her to start roaming around because of an empty feeder if I can help it.</strong><br>

<strong>Next question now is whether or not a Male shows up…if one does, then I’d be very surprised if they’d leave such a food supply with spring breeding / nest building season right here on us.</strong></p>

<p><strong>Canon FDn 400/4.5<br /></strong></p>

<p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v630/roundball/PHOTOGRAPHY/BIRDS/WOODPECKERS/YELLOW-BELLIED%20SAPSUCKER/022315%20PM%20Yellow-Bellied%20Sapsucker%20at%20grape%20jelly%2014%20LR%20PBBrt10%20PBCon10%20PBS25_zpsewcwkyis.jpg" alt="" /></p>

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<p><em><strong>DUE TO SOME REORGANIZATION OF MY HOSTING PHOTO STORAGE, THE LINK BROKE FOR THE PHOTO IN THIS PREVIOUS POST.....EDIT TIMER HAS EXPIRED OF COURSE SO I'VE REPOSTED THE PHOTO HERE.</strong></em><br>

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<p><strong>Yes, our old FD lenses are as stellar today as they were back in the 80's.</strong><br /> <strong>And I guess I should have passed on the photo below being taken on a tree trunk that had been cut off with a chainsaw.</strong><br /> <strong>Meanwhile I'm waiting for the individual above to post up a couple dozen of his top quality examples of pure natural environment looking bird photos so I can continue along my learning curve.</strong><br>

<strong>RED SHOULDERED HAWK WITH BROWN THRASHER FOR BREAKFAST...ZEROED IN ON THE SHUTTER NOISE.</strong><br /> <br /> <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v630/roundball/PHOTOGRAPHY/BIRDS/HAWKS%20and%20OWLS/RED%20SHOULDERED%20HAWK%20with%20BROWN%20THRASHER%20112614/112614-AB%20Red%20Shouldered%20Hawk%20-%20Brown%20Thrasher%20Breakfast%20006%20PBS50%20LR_zpswm7xb7uj.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v630/roundball/PHOTOGRAPHY/BIRDS/HAWKS%20and%20OWLS/2014%20RED%20SHOULDERED%20HAWK/RED%20SHOULDERED%20HAWK%20with%20BROWN%20THRASHER%20112614/112614-AB%20Red%20Shouldered%20Hawk%20-%20Brown%20Thrasher%20Breakfast%20006%20PBS50%20LR_zpswm7xb7uj.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="794" /></p>