After the eclipse, checking to make sure the sun’s still there. From yesterday @ 600mm w/ solar filter, lots of sunspot activity:

One of BirdingPI.com’s favourite woodpeckers, great to see Yellow-bellied Sapsucker back in town. (Typically here only in relatively narrow windows in spring and fall.) These shots from Presque Isle State Park:







Folks, how does our Team Leader do it? Always perfect pics of the feathered friends, who seem very friendly, indeed!
Could the ‘sunspots’ be dirt on the lens? hummmm