Pileated Woodpecker

Posted by Betty (New Jersey, United States) on 30 December 2007 in Animal & Insect and Portfolio.

This woodpecker was eating the ants nesting in this old tree stump. There is an ant in its mouth.

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KONICA MINOLTA MAXXUM 7D
1/60 second
F/5.6
ISO 800
600 mm (35mm equiv.)

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