Bird Wallpaper Backgrounds for Computer Screens for Free

A Red Bellied Woodpecker (which should be called an Orange Mohawked Woodpecker) that we call Ziggy.This new telephoto lens is aviarily awesome. I can stand at my window, hidden by the drapes in my little bird blind, and take great close-ups of the over 40 species of birds that visit the feeder on our back porch. While I've been able to enjoy close-up viewing with binoculars, it just doesn't compare to being able to sit down and study the detail of a close-up photograph of a bird, where you can see details like individual feathers. Or, in this case, a tongue!

This is a red bellied woodpecker, but as you can see, the coloring is orange, and there's a little splash of it on the belly, so hence the name. Many birds are named what they're not, and we've created little pet names for them ourselves. The purple finch is really burgundy, so we call them the red-wine-dipped finch. We call the red bellied woodpecker an orange Mohawked woodpecker. This is the female, who's mohawk doesn't cover her whole head like it does on the male. We call these guys Ziggies, after Ziggy Stardust, the David Bowie character.

This picture is cropped to better see the detail. The large version has space to the right and left, which makes it perfect for bird wallpaper (you can align your icons on either side of the bird). I've posted several bird wallpaper pictures to be used as bird backgrounds for computer screens, all taken with the new telephoto lens.

Remember, the versions of these high resolution nature photos are 1600 pixels wide. For the full, 3888 pixel wide versions, just contact me and we can work something out. I'm usually happy just to get credit and a link, per the creative commons license.