Video of Downy Woodpeckers etc.
Well, this is too easy... Set up the the video camera, and with a bit of editing we got the following...
A downy woodpecker (or more likely a family), a grackle, and a chickadee. Interesting to note that the woodpeckers seemed to struggle with the concept of the suet feeder. (At least one landed on the camera/tripod and tried to make a lunch of it. If you listen carefully, you can hear the bird pecking away at the rig.)
Aside from the video above, all seems to go well here on the Cape... The weather is cooling, the orioles are gone, and the hummingbirds are active as ever. At this point it becomes a question of, "What do we want to point our cameras at?" Mrs. CCA got some beautiful shots of Red River Beach today, and they'll be forthcoming. But truth be told, photography has taken on the mundane. Yeah, we can handle (mangle?) still, video, and even audio... But now what? I'll do some underwater vids... But after that?
It's funny really... The very technology that was supposed to open up our creativity has instead exposed our lack thereof, and in the process left boredom... Dang!
Frustrated by the feeders,
CapeCodAlan
Cornell Ornithology Laboratory: Inside Birding
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Comments
CCA,
You needn't be frustrated. Everything you post is interesting and educational.
If you need to have a different focus, think about this. I am particularly interested in bird behavior. One does not see, very often, how birds defend their food liar, position, or when a foreign threat occurs, or how they teach their young offspring. This most certainly would include nesting behavior, building nests, and the like.
So, for what's its worth, keep posting. I enjoy every minute of it.
Wish you had a "message board" where you and your readers could just chat a while, or just chat among each other.
Cheers,
Harry "Gipper" Morris
Posted by: Harry Morris | September 8, 2009 4:24 PM