I thought I would showcase another bird from my recent outing to the Pedernales Falls State Park bird blind. The bird below is a female Golden-Fronted Woodpecker. The Golden-fronted Woodpecker consumes about as much fruit and nuts as it does insects. During the summer in Texas, the faces of some woodpeckers become stained purple from eating fruit of the prickly pear cactus. Perhaps we should change their name to the Purple-faced and Golden-fronted Woodpecker…
This image was taken with my Canon EOS 5D Mark III using my Sigma 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Sports Lens set on 470 mm. The camera was set on Aperture priority mode with the aperture set at f/8, shutter speed at 1/500th of a second and the ISO set at 2500.
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