Yes, I know.
It's a crummy photograph.
But when you only have a couple of seconds and you're using a phone camera and you're shooting through a window and you're trying not to move so abruptly that the blasted bird flies away . . . that's what you get.
He did fly off after drying his beak on the tree just after I took this shot so my point is well taken.
And I show it just to prove to you that I do have a Ladder-backed Woodpecker in the neighborhood.
It's been awhile since I'd seen him and this is my first view of him actually having a drink at the birdbath.
Pretty, isn't he?
