Testing At Carpenter

I did some more testing with the camera at Carpenter Nature Center today.  I find that it's taking some practice on my part for finding the best light to get the best shot of the birds.  I have the option of having the camera take a few photos or several photos at once, but find that I like it taking as many photos as possible.  Even if the photo isn't the clearest, I'm learning some very cool things.

I found that one of the hairy woodpeckers visiting their feeders was wearing a band.  This wasn't too much of a surprise to me, since Carpenter does have a program for banding songbirds, but I noticed in I photo that I can enlarge the image and read some of the numbers on the band.  Pretty sweet.

Another fun image I was able to capture was the upclose shot of a male downy woodpecker.  I was able to place the camera close enough to the suet feeder that you can see the dark brown iris of his eyes.