Using the digital zoom on my Sony Cyber-shot camera (a sort of devil’s bargain, enabling me to get much closer to distant objects than otherwise, at the cost of dramatic decrease in image quality), I was able to snap a couple quick photographs of a red-headed woodpecker perched high in the branches of an ancient, half-dead pecan tree. Only later, reviewing my photos from the day, did I see the second bird, glancing up at the first one.
