{"id":3276,"date":"2014-06-02T07:30:55","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T11:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/?p=3276"},"modified":"2014-06-01T19:43:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T23:43:30","slug":"first-hairy-woodpecker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/first-hairy-woodpecker\/","title":{"rendered":"First Hairy Woodpecker"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know if I have just gotten better at identifying birds, become more observant in my observations or there is a real change in the migrating patterns I am seeing this year.<\/p>\n

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Hairy Woodpecker about to hit the feeder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The results however have been pretty meaningful. I have observed several new species (here,<\/strong><\/a> here<\/strong><\/a> and here<\/strong><\/a>) for my neck of the woods the past 4 weeks. Unfortunately most of these observations were short lived. <\/p>\n

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Hairy Woodpecker on the lookout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Much to my chagrin many of these birds have already migrated further north. I was pretty amazed when I first saw this Hairy Woodpecker. The brown spots made me think I had somehow seen a Pacific variant which has more brown. Hairy and Pileated Woodpeckers are difficult to to get on film. They are very skittish and I like to be close when I make my images, I like the subject to fill the frame, portrait style if you will. I also like to make images that show point of reference and biology. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know if I have just gotten better at identifying birds, become more observant in my observations or there is a real change in the migrating patterns I am seeing this year. The results however have been pretty meaningful. I have observed several new species (here, here and here) for my neck of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[32,38,31,29,30,37,33],"class_list":["post-3276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","tag-birds-2","tag-hairy-woodpecker","tag-images","tag-new-canaan","tag-photography","tag-vincent-mistretta","tag-wildlife-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t