[Leica] Northern Flicker

[cummer at netvigator.com (H&E Cummer)]

Hi Luggers,
On Pender we live in a wooden cabin - some of the timbers used to build the 
cabin were actually logged from the site.
As well as hummingbirds and eagles we have varieties of wood eating birds 
including the Pileated Woodpecker and
most recently the Northern Flicker. Here are two pictures of a male Northern 
Flicker which, with its mate, is doing
its level best to eat my wooden cabin. We have hung up aluminum pie plates 
in the eaves and balinese chimes at
the corner of the roof to try and scare them away. So far we haven't had 
much luck and it looks like I may have to call in
an expert. The pictures:

<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Canada2013/Male-Northern-Flickerw.jpg.html>

http://tinyurl.com/kn9qfbs

and another view:

<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Canada2013/Northern-Flicker-2w.jpg.html>

http://tinyurl.com/ltffvg5

Both taken with the Fuji XE 1 and the 55 - 200 zoom - hand held and 
processed and cropped in CS6.

The fuji zoom is noticeably sharper than my old Nikon 300 f4.0 AF

Please look large.
C&C always welcome

Howard.