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20-FEB-2015 Hank Vander Velde

20150224 DR 040 Hispaniolan Woodpecker.jpg

Dominican Republic

This Woodpecker is endemic to The Dominican Republic./Haiti (Hispaniola Island). There were quite a few of these Woodpeckers around our resort, usually up high in the Palm Trees, but occasionally they came down to pick berries.

On our second day at the resort, whilst walking the beach, I found several of these Woodpeckers attacking these berries which were quite low. I managed several shots and went back to check on these trees every day for several days, but never did see the Woodpeckers picking berries from them again.

Nikon D800 ,Nikkor 300mm f/4 ED-IF AF-S
1/1250s f/7.1 at 420.0mm iso3200 full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
Dave Barnes10-Mar-2015 07:22
Way to go Hank, lovely, congrats on getting the bird.
Bert Ooms09-Mar-2015 10:29
Wonderful setting, hanging at the berries.
The yellow eye is a nice eye-catcher.
Best, Bert
Alan Gutsell 08-Mar-2015 22:52
Nice find, I would like to see this Woodpecker
Hennie & Lies Lammers08-Mar-2015 22:15
Terrific Hank. beautiful colors
Cynthia (Cindy) Sutcliffe06-Mar-2015 20:52
A fascinating bird, well captured!
Carol Rollins06-Mar-2015 03:02
Super capture Hank!
Jean Chiasson05-Mar-2015 21:44
Fantastic colors and set up Hank big vote
Yiannis Pavlis05-Mar-2015 15:37
Very lovely photo Hank.
Doug Griffith05-Mar-2015 12:54
Stunning colours; interesting-looking woodpecker, Hank.
hayl05-Mar-2015 12:13
Super colourful photo - love its eye.
Tom Munson05-Mar-2015 05:44
This is terrific, Hank. Beautiful bird and setting.
Bryan Murahashi05-Mar-2015 05:02
A fantastic and colorful capture.
Claude Gagnon05-Mar-2015 04:08
Wow...a beautiful shot of this great woodpecker :))
Pierre Martin05-Mar-2015 03:59
beautiful colors on that woodpecker!
Jim Coffman05-Mar-2015 03:56
A very nice capture of this unusual looking woodpecker!
Range View 05-Mar-2015 03:15
Wish we had Woodpeckers here in Aust, they make for wonderful images like this.
David.
Bill Miller05-Mar-2015 03:12
What a superb picture of that very colourful woodpecker.
Dennis Swayze05-Mar-2015 02:01
Nice work Hank
Cheers !
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