"I am home among trees." - J.R.R. Tolkien
Their natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests of Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests of the Himalayas in India, Nepal and Bhutan.
Whilst trekking through a forest patch we reached a clearing and could see beautiful snow capped peaks in the background. I asked Harish Maithani, our guide to take a picture of Aman and myself with the backup camera. Whilst I posed for the camera, Aman kept nudging me while I told him to look ahead and smile for the camera. He wanted to draw my attention to this Rufous-bellied woodpecker which had alighted on the tree next to us. By the time I got the camera up it had already flown to the next tree. Luckily I managed to get a few clicks on the next tree.
Rufous-bellied woodpecker
(Dendrocopos hyperythrus)
Sony A77II
Tamron 150-600
f/6.3, 1/640s, ISO3200, 600mm
Keadarnath WLS, (India)
May 2019