Pretty Good Bite

[John H]

Pretty good bite today but the bigs are definitely getting off the shoreline and lining up for the all-you-can-eat shad buffet that should be opening up any day now. Lots of critters out there to photograph also. Cool and overcast conditions which made for soft light and almost no shadows. I found a couple of birds at their nesting holes which was pretty lucky and found some ground squirrels perched in a tree. Good day.

[albiec22]

These are some incredible pictures! Acorn woodpeckers are such a cool bird.

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Nice John

Good to see someone living life.


A friend of mine, Cecil Wilder (Junior), used to go out at night on Berryessa, in a boat with lights for very large Crappie.

[John H]

I was fishing along the shore and spotted an acorn woodpecker sitting in a tree and he flew off. The tree had a couple of holes and it was a wierd spot for him to sit so I guessed it might be his nesting tree and sat in my boat and waited. He came back in a few minutes and went into a hole I had not seen. A few minutes later he poked his head out like a little Jack in the box and I got his picture. They don’t linger outside the holes much. I think maybe they don’t like giving away their nest location. They zip in and out pretty fast. There was a bright distracting stick behind him that I took out of the picture. Every picture has a story.

[MThompson]

I can't help but wonder if those woodpeckers actually eat all the acorns that they hide in those trees. I've seen some trees with hundreds of them stashed away.