Just illustrating one of the common pitfalls of nature photography.
The other day while I was up in the bathroom observing the ducks (which sounds weird if you haven’t been following along,) a pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) was hopping excitedly between a couple of trees in relatively plain sight, and I say “relatively” because there is no completely plain sight
Credit for this one – at least, part one – goes to The Girlfriend, who was the first to spot and photograph it three days ago, but it wasn’t until yesterday that I was successful myself. I was out specifically to pick an Estate Find, hopefully this one. and wasn’t having a lot of luck – I was on my way back when I caught movement at the pond edge. Visibility was horrendous,
