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01-Jul-2025 Donald E. Casavecchia

Red-headed Woodpecker (immature)

Lake Frederick, Virginia

This recently fledged immature Red-headed Woodpecker came into our backyard suet feeders following a parent. It didn't actually land on the suet feeder, just observed the parent.
The parent would get a full bill of suet and fly to a distant white oak tree and scrape the suet onto the limb - then the three immature fledglings would eat the suet.
I did get some DigiScoped images of the distant white oak tree, but the details are poor; will try for better images.

Nikon Z 6II ,NIKKOR Z 70-200mm f/2.8 VR S with TC 2X
1/400s f/14.0 at 600mm iso1250
Free Crop of RAW DX Image for this .jpg hide exif

Full EXIF Info
Date/Time01-Jul-2025 10:31:47
MakeNikon
ModelNIKON Z 6_2
Flash UsedNo
Focal Length400 mm
Exposure Time1/400 sec
Aperturef/14
ISO Equivalent1250
Exposure Bias0.67
White Balance0
Metering Modematrix (5)
JPEG Quality
Exposure Programmanual (1)
Focus Distance

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Hank Vander Velde01-Jul-2025 22:45
Nice find and image Don. I've not seen an immathere before.
Carl Carbone01-Jul-2025 22:01
Nice visitors! Sharp shot of this shy little one.
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