A Poorly Papped Pair of Peckers

Today a pair of great spotted woodpeckers appeared in one of the trees in out neighbours garden. So I attempted to take picture. It did not go well.

Then, for extra comedy attempted to photograph them trough the lens of my binoculars, without any real success.

I had seen a male woodpecker once or twice earlier in the year but, though you can see from these images, this appears to be a female and juvenile.

I have a Nikon DSLR that I bought about 12 years ago and barely ever used. I think I’ll see if I can charge the battery (hopefully it isn’t dead) and leave the camera by the window so I can start to get some less pathetic photographs where I can actually see the birds.