bird photography : white-breasted nuthatch

This White-Breasted Nuthatch was too intent on digging a morsel from the tree to notice John's approach, yielding several nice photos in the quickly-fading light of early evening at Huntley Meadows. John's whiteface cockatiel, Locke, idolizes the nuthatch and will be quite pleased to have a pinup of this one.

Equipment: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT Canon EF 75-300mm f4-5.6 USM III Settings: f5.6; 1/125 sec.; focal length at 300 mm; ISO 800 Date: March 7, 2006 4:47 pm Location: Huntley Meadows Park / Fairfax County, VA