Look like this guy? This is a Northern Flicker - a type of woodpecker. When they fly that have a very distinct yellow color (used to be called Yellow Shafted Flicker).

Thank goodness I'm cute. People want to wipe me out because I do a ton of damage to your homes! :cool:

Took a walk in a local forest preserve and saw all sorts of birds. It was a busy day. The mist interesting was the Eastern Kingbird (the second photo). Never seen one of those before.

It’s been showing up in significant quantities around our stores as well. I was also able to pick up a couple of bottles of Eagle Rare and a bottle of EH Taylor at retail - stuff I’ve never seen except in the gray market.

I was out in the backyard playing with the settings on my Nikon camera when this little guy showed up in my view. Caught me completely by surprise. Sorry the pictures are not better - I need to work on a few things to get it completely locked in...

Where the heck has Swissy been? He still around?!? If you are - Happy Birthday, brother - hope you're still smoking salmons for the great good!

I've hung my hummingbird feeders again this year. Have not seen any as of yet, but they did not arrive at my feeders last year until later in the season.

The Baltimore Orioles are back at the feeders for the third season!

I'd heard rumors that Buffalo Trace switched distributors because of distribution issues - and that there was a good chance we'd start to see the "rare" BT stuff on shelves. My son was in a Binny's near us and found Eagle Rare on the shelf, and a whole end cap of cases of Weller's SR. I also...

Male and female House Finch hanging out at the jelly feeder. Hoping to see the Baltimore Orioles soon!

A male American Goldfinch in our flowering crabapple tree. Striking colors on both!

A Rose-Breasted Grosbeak showed up at the feeder today - first time we'd ever seen one in person!

I have both LR and Topaz. I really like Topaz because it does a pretty decent job on noise, but many of my photos are pretty seriously underexposed and therefore pretty noisy. Topaz has it limits!!! But - you're spot on. I'm going to have to a bit of tweaking, but I should be able to...

I don't think I could duplicate this photo if I tried. Straight out of the camera with only minor adjustments, but to me it looks just like a painting!

My wife was loving them flying around her head when she would work in the area of the Butterfly Bush we have in the back yard. Like you - I would sit with my cigar, whiskey and my camera watching the "fun". The hummingbirds were not at all shy!

Momma and I went for a walk at a nearby forest preserve and ran across this Kildeer. He sure seemed to like to pose for pictures. Spent a good 15-20 minutes parading back and forth for me!