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Downy Woodpecker, Kennebunk Maine<\/p><\/div>\n

I am on my way to Florida today, traveling most of the day, so this is an image from last week. <\/p>\n

I am not sure if the Downy Woodpecker ever actually takes seed from the Thistle Sock, but it hangs there often, using it as a intermediate perch on its way to the bottom of the suet cage, where it hangs upside down and pecks at the suet blocks inside. From my post at the far corner of the deck outside the glass doors from the kitchen, there is a narrow window between the apple branch perches, so the image is cropped accordingly. There was a little nub of branch sticking out from foreground perch and almost toching the woodpeckers head (not in reality, but in perspective), which I was able to remove in TouchRetouch after processing the image in Polarr. <\/p>\n

Sony RX10iii at 600mm equivalent field of view. 1\/250th @ ISO 200 @ f4. Processed as above. <\/p>\n

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