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Image Taken on 30 Jul 2021
at 14:39 Image of day on 16 Sep 2021
A juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker also visits the meadow post, but prefers ...
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Image Taken on 03 Aug 2009
at 18:37 Image of day on 16 Sep 2009
The combination of flash (lasts about 0.001 sec) and shutter
movement blur (about 0.05 sec) has produced this rather unusual
view of a juvenile woodpecker.
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Image Taken on 12 Jun 2015
at 08:03 Image of day on 14 Aug 2015
This Great Spotted Woodpecker juvenile (left) had us 'in stitches' as it
decided that the head of a Pampas grass was a good place to wait to be fed.
It could barely keep it's balance on the swaying and bouncing weak material,
and the arrival of it's mother doubled the problem and arranged a sort of
bobbing ballet of birds. Its a wonder we got any photos at all!
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Image Taken on 12 Jun 2015
at 08:03 Image of day on 14 Aug 2015
Finally aligning beaks, the mother (right) puts her own beak right
inside that of the hungry youngster
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Image Taken on 08 Aug 2021
at 09:27 Image of day on 18 Sep 2021
We see several juvenile Great Spotted Woodpeckers visiting the peanut feeders
for a quick high protein feed. These cages do block the Grey Squirrels, but this
bird's long beak and slender head means that the cage is no barrier, and that's
fine with us.
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Image Taken on 04 Jun 2022
at 20:19 Image of day on 15 Jul 2022
The Juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker flies in to land next to Mum.
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Image Taken on 09 Aug 2011
at 14:25 Image of day on 25 Sep 2011
The bird spotted us and took his nut away to come back later.
(Poor quality hurried shot not suitable for printing)
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Image Taken on 06 Jun 2020
at 07:23 Image of day on 08 Jul 2020
A juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker probably watching us watching them
from a lichen covered willow branch.
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Image Taken on 19 Jun 2019
at 14:32 Image of day on 30 Jul 2019
We have lost count of the Great Spotted Woodpecker juveniles, now
with the full spread from 'Feed Me' to 'I'll Feed Myself' including the
'I'll accept what's offered but find my own as well'.
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Image Taken on 26 Jul 2022
at 19:34 Image of day on 09 Sep 2022
We no longer see much of Great Spotted Woodpeckers on feeders near the house -
at this time of year there is masses of 'natural' food available.
But this juvenile sweeps in with aplomb to check out the hedge bottom.
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Image Taken on 01 Jun 2011
at 07:01 Image of day on 09 Jul 2011
A juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker arrives behind an apparently
oblivious Grey Squirrel. When we first saw this we wished we had
another frame a second or two later.
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Image Taken on 06 Aug 2024
at 10:50 Image of day on 23 Sep 2024
This juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker touches down on the meadow post and in
half a second is already on their way again. Some (animal) visitors really
don't like the photo flash (some 15m away) while others completely ignore it.
We may see this individual again when they realise the flash is completely harmless.
We notice that Owls never react like this - perhaps sweeping
car headlight beams are so much a part of their nightly patrols that it is just
flashes of light are 'nothing unusual'.
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Image Taken on 10 Aug 2012
at 07:25 Image of day on 21 Sep 2012
From the top of the track-side Lombardy poplar a juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker
launches itself downwards. Accurately spaced at 7 fps except for a frame missing
between the 2 rightmost birds.
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Image Taken on 07 Aug 2011
at 18:09 Image of day on 25 Sep 2011
A Great Spotted Woodpecker Juvenile fixing his beady eye on a hazel nut
a few metres from the bottom of the pole in the next images.
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Image Taken on 26 Jul 2013
at 14:55 Image of day on 15 Sep 2013
A juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker peers down the side of the
tree-stump. The bird may be looking for food pushed into the bark
as we do at another post.
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Image Taken on 05 Jun 2019
at 10:40 Image of day on 18 Jul 2019
There were 3 juvenile Great Spotted Woodpeckers in this tree at once,
but true to form one of them flies off before the camera moves to photograph it.
The bird on the right was having a bit of a peck at the Blue Tit nestbox but it
is made of woodcrete so did no harm.
After a few years most wooden nest boxes get rendered unusable by Woodpecker
damage.
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Image Taken on 15 Jun 2016
at 07:07 Image of day on 27 Jul 2016
We are sure that birds have to be careful using those sharp claws to preen the
bits the beak can't reach. As this juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker is waiting
for Dad to bring in some food you can see fragments of dislodged down drifting
away to the right.
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Image Taken on 12 Jun 2023
at 09:41 Image of day on 06 Aug 2023
... and this the Kitchen 'grab camera.
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Image Taken on 12 Jun 2023
at 09:40 Image of day on 06 Aug 2023
We don't know where they nested, but a family (well so far one youngster and
'Dad) of Great Spotted Woodpeckers has appeared. This juvenile spent several
minutes at the kitchen perch and bird-table making so many moves that we used
separate cameras to try to catch the action.
This first is the automatic camera at the kitchen window being manually fired ...
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Image Taken on 04 Aug 2022
at 09:13 Image of day on 17 Sep 2022
If you live in a town you are more likely to see Great Spotted Woodpeckers.
A few sightings at the peanut feeder are supplemented by this pic of
a juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker stopping off at the Meadow post.
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