Dismal Woodpecker

The Missus and I went to the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge. It's a 133,000 acre area of a swamp that used to be over one million acres.

This female red-bellied woodpecker was making quite a racket and giving away her location. She was calling out to her mate, who was equally noisy but too far away to photograph.

[Esther Rosenberg]

Beautiful capture, like the branch textures as well