About the Image(s)

We are fortunate to have a pair of these magnificent birds that live in the woods back of our house. They come to our bird feeders often and like peanut suet I set out. These birds are rather difficult to photograph well as they are quite skittish. I have enjoyed the challenge.

Here I used my tripod mounted Nikon D300 camera with a Nikon 200-400mm zoom lens @ 400mm (adding a 1.4X teleconverter which yields an effective focal length of 550mm) to capture this single frame (1/80 sec, f/7.1, ISO 800).