This woodpecker was around the backside of my property yesterday afternoon.
"Red-bellied Woodpeckers bring bright colors and entertaining action to bird feeders. If you live near any wooded patches, you may be able to attract them using feeders filled with suet (in winter), peanuts, and sometimes sunflower seeds" - allaboutbirds.org.
This is the only view I have with both the male and female fully in the same frame. Unfortunately, they didn't do me a solid by getting closer together 😅. In this photo, the female is at the top and the male below. If you look very closely at the bird on the bottom, you'll see a reddish tint to that thick stipe extending back from his beak.
I had several conversations with Mastodon friends yesterday about woodpeckers. Some people shared interesting photos and videos of different species of woodpecker. A mastodon friend helped me distinguish between the male and female pleated. On the male thick part of the strip extending back from the beak is red or reddish. So here is another photo. This photo is a female.
To all those kinky picture lovers out there :boost_request:
Please make sure to add some alt text to your pictures when you upload them. That’ll make your kinky appearance also visible to visually impaired people and give you an extra good feeling.
Several mastodon servers have started to demand alt texts for all images and many people refuse to boost toots that contain pictures without alt text.
Do yourself and your kinky audience this little favor and please add some nice alt texts to your uploads.
Already thanks to all those who do this. You’re the best 😽
My favorite landscapes to shoot are those with water, whether the ocean, a lake, a pond, or a waterfall. There's something magical about the reflections and the way the light shimmers on the surface.
I was outside yesterday photographing some chipping sparrows, when I noticed other small birds among them. It just so happens, a Mastodon friend told me a few days ago that he saw some of these. So, I was kind of watching for them.
"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." - Nathaniel Hawthorne
“All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide
like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide;
but a hidden star can still be smiling
at night's black spell on darkness, beguiling” - Munia Khan