Red-bellied Woodpecker: Kennebunk, Maine, USA, October 2025 — As the season changes here in Southern Maine, the Red-bellied Woodpecker is spending more time around the feeders on our deck. It never stops for long and is super wary, any motion and it is off again. In this case I had the camera up to photograph a nuthatch on another feeder when the Red-bellied flew in. It actually appeared in the background of the photo I was framing, so I only had to move the slightest bit to get it in frame, and I got off a burst of a dozen shots before it flew again. Notice the pink tint on the lower belly…that is the “red-belly” of the name. Sony a6700. Sigma 16-300 at 450mm equivalent. Aperture (f7.1) with bird and wildlife modifications. Processed in Photomator.