Hi Howard! Both are good, but the first is fantastic! Excellent pose and light. :-) Nice bokeh on the 55~200, as well! Glad that we can "enjoy" the fruits of your house! (Good luck with that!) David. > Hi Flexers, > > 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. > ------ > Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: > http://www.lrflex.furnfeather.net/ > Archives are at: > //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/ ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www.lrflex.furnfeather.net/ Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/