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Birds - Woodpeckers Page 14
Image Taken on 30 Aug 2021
at 10:57 Image of day on 12 Oct 2021
... before another visit a few minutes later.
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Image Taken on 19 Aug 2021
at 18:44 Image of day on 29 Sep 2021
This week has been a bonanza for sightings of what for now appears to be a
'resident' juvenile male Green Woodpecker. Here he spent about 7 minutes on
the top of the Meadow Post.
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Image Taken on 30 Aug 2021
at 10:43 Image of day on 12 Oct 2021
Back to the juvenile Green Woodpeckers - here probing the crack in the
top of the post before being caught departing ...
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Image Taken on 20 Aug 2021
at 07:53 Image of day on 15 Oct 2021
A juvenile male Green Woodpecker lands on the meadow post.
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Image Taken on 02 Sep 2021
at 16:18 Image of day on 15 Oct 2021
This juvenile male Green Woodpecker continues his visits.
We think Green Woodpeckers always looks grumpy, but that's anthropomorphising them.
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Image Taken on 26 Aug 2021
at 08:12 Image of day on 08 Oct 2021
Juvenile Green Woodpeckers have been regularly appearing at the Meadow Post.
We have at least 3 individuals - 2 males and a female.
This is a juvenile male.
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Image Taken on 04 Sep 2021
at 17:47 Image of day on 15 Oct 2021
This more advanced juvenile male Green Woodpecker lands on the Meadow post.
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Image Taken on 21 Aug 2021
at 16:25 Image of day on 29 Sep 2021
The juvenile male Green Woodpecker makes a flamboyant landing.
We has obviously been probing the ground and bought some of it back with him.
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Image Taken on 12 Aug 2021
at 10:04 Image of day on 23 Sep 2021
A juvenile male Green Woodpecker probes the ground.
Although their favourite food is Ants, any small invertebrate will do!
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Image Taken on 01 Sep 2023
at 14:46 Image of day on 26 Oct 2023
A juvenile male Green Woodpecker spends a few minutes on the meadow post.
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Image Taken on 22 Aug 2021
at 19:00 Image of day on 04 Oct 2021
The Meadow post has been drying out over the years, and was developed some wide
cracks down the length that are hardly visible in this view. The crack down the centre
you see here is a minor affair compared to the large crack that is about 10mm wide at the top.
Anyway, the Green Woodpecker has been systematically pecking inside the crack
(left) and (right) a minute later has pulled something out and you can see the tip of
his long tongue still sticking out of the tip of the beak.
In typical fashion, the light would go really dim for this interesting frame.
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Image Taken on 22 Aug 2021
at 16:53 Image of day on 04 Oct 2021
The juvenile male Green Woodpecker makes another visit, this one lasting almost
two and a half hours. We would like to think that these formed a little sequence,
but they are spaced over in excess of an hour, except the two on the ground about
1 minute apart.
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Image Taken on 22 Aug 2021
at 19:06 Image of day on 03 Oct 2021
An assortment of some of the fun moments of the juvenile male Woodpecker's visits.
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Image Taken on 25 May 2023
at 12:09 Image of day on 19 Jul 2023
Green Woodpeckers are back to frequenting the Meadow Post.
This beautiful male lands on the side - tail acting as a third landing 'leg'.
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Image Taken on 11 Jun 2020
at 13:11 Image of day on 10 Jul 2020
A male Green Woodpecker checking over the Meadow post.
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Image Taken on 11 Jul 2023
at 10:46 Image of day on 04 Sep 2023
It is clear that we have regular visits from a family of Green Woodpeckers - Mum, Dad
and now at least one sprog.
Here is the male landing in an extremely poor state - probably still wet from a bath.
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Image Taken on 10 Aug 2023
at 13:02 Image of day on 02 Oct 2023
We hear Green Woodpeckers more often than we see them.
Here is a rather dynamic moment of a male launching from the Meadow Post.
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Image Taken on 29 Aug 2021
at 11:14 Image of day on 12 Oct 2021
An adult male Green Woodpecker graces the meadow Post for a few minutes.
Read this right to left - a heavy landing, a scramble for secure footing, and then
a few minutes watching the world go by.
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Image Taken on 09 Feb 2021
at 14:31 Image of day on 20 Mar 2021
The local Green Woodpecker is very nervous of humans, so we hardly ever see him
for ourselves. But he seems to find the Meadow Post an acceptable place to perch.
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Image Taken on 16 Nov 2022
at 10:45 Image of day on 17 Dec 2022
A local male Green Woodpecker takes a selfie in the sunshine.
His beak is coated with mud - at this time of year an 'occupational hazard'
for a bird that feeds by probing the ground and Ant nests.
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