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Birds - Woodpeckers Page 17
Image Taken on 28 Nov 2022
at 12:41 Image of day on 28 Dec 2022
This Green Woodpecker flies high above us and lands on this Silver Birch mostly
obscured by trees closer to us. A creep along the path across the meadow finally
finds a clear view without alarming the bird again, allowing this pic.
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Image Taken on 28 Nov 2022
at 12:41 Image of day on 28 Dec 2022
If you prefer more detail of the lovely bird, here it is.
The red patch below the eye identifies this is an adult male.
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Image Taken on 22 Sep 2015
at 15:56 Image of day on 20 Nov 2015
After hearing and glimpsing the departure of the Green Woodpecker for
months we have finally caught an image of a juvenile lurking in a
Lichen encrusted stem of a Willow tree.
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Image Taken on 16 Feb 2024
at 11:49 Image of day on 12 Mar 2024
Here a green woodpecker spends a few minutes probing the pollarded willow at
the back of Duck Pond before launching back towards the centre of the meadow,
beak tip lost out of frame.
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Image Taken on 30 Apr 2008
at 17:40 Image of day on 16 May 2008
Mr & Mrs Green woodpecker - we hope they are nesting somewhere!
The male is the one with the extra red on the cheek.
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Image Taken on 18 May 2011
at 11:21 Image of day on 27 Jun 2011
No signs of the Green Woodpeckers breeding this year, but it may be.
Here is a visitor busy probing the ground in their usual way.
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Image Taken on 03 Sep 2009
at 16:19 Image of day on 16 Oct 2009
A couple of hours earlier that afternoon we had a sort 'if I
can't see you can't see me' type of sneaked portrait.
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Image Taken on 03 Mar 2018
at 12:37 Image of day on 12 Apr 2018
Green Woodpeckers mostly feed by probing the ground for ants and other insects.
Here the bird has scraped away some of the snow to get at the ground to probe it.
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Image Taken on 06 Mar 2024
at 15:32 Image of day on 03 Apr 2024
The trusty camera focussed on the Meadow Post caught this short visit of a male
Green Woodpecker.
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Image Taken on 10 Aug 2021
at 10:23 Image of day on 18 Sep 2021
What seems to be a regular individual juvenile Green Woodpecker visited the Meadow Post.
A few minutes after his last visit to the post we see him on the ground some 10m away
triggering the 'meadow camera'.
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Image Taken on 03 Sep 2009
at 17:38 Image of day on 16 Oct 2009
The green woodpecker is around all year, but usually only
detectable by his call and sometimes fleeting view of departure.
But we got lucky this week with an image from an automatic camera
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Image Taken on 29 Jan 2019
at 10:34 Image of day on 22 Feb 2019
When we first saw this sequence of Green Woodpecker visits over 2 hours we
assumed that it was the same individual. But the 1st and 4th (Top Left and
Bottom Right) images are of a female (no red under the eye) and the middle 2 are
a male. We do hope they have 'found' each other!
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Ref: 20190222_d01_20190129_1034_021+1217_022+1218_023+1222_024_fb6 green woodpeckers (1+4=female 2+3=male) meadow post 1-4 of 4 (montage)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 05 Jul 2012
at 13:19 Image of day on 18 Aug 2012
The juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker seems determined to see off
the squirrel, but it won't succeed.
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Image Taken on 05 Jun 2011
at 07:05 Image of day on 09 Jul 2011
4 days on we feel we have the 'what happened next' picture
Not so oblivious this time!
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Ref: 20110709_d3b_20110605_0705_160_fb3 grey squirrel fending off arrival of great spotted woodpecker juvenile (crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 26 Jun 2012
at 08:02 Image of day on 03 Aug 2012
A less angelic side of Grey Squirrel behaviour. We hope juvenile
Great Spotted Woodpecker stops these close encounters before it
gets one of those sharp claws somewhere vital.
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Ref: 20120803_d3b_20120626_0802_036_fb3 grey squirrel lunging at passing great spotted woodpecker juvenile (crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 30 Jun 2012
at 05:44 Image of day on 13 Aug 2012
A juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker still thinks it can outwit the
Grey Squirrel - the adults long ago learned better.
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Image Taken on 11 Jun 2014
at 09:53 Image of day on 18 Aug 2014
This Jackdaw is particularly aggressive / confident / stupid / Testosterone driven
(you choose!) and launches itself at anything in its way including the
normally dominant Grey Squirrels.
Here the Jackdaw is trying to chase away a juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker
who may have wished it had launched half a second earlier!
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Image Taken on 24 May 2014
at 15:15 Image of day on 03 Aug 2014
"Boo!"
Before we actually saw a Great Spotted Woodpecker we imagined
from the name and noise they make that they would be a much bigger
bird. Here you can see the size relative to the much larger Jackdaw.
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Image Taken on 01 Feb 2024
at 10:46 Image of day on 24 Feb 2024
Closer inspection makes 'less vigorous' seem more like 'probably dead' :-(
The tree has broken off at about 3.5 metres high, and the upper section is in 2 parts -
the upper sloping section in this pic, and a piece originally between them about 1 metre
long here propped up by us against the base of the lower trunk still in the ground, with
a 70mm hole in the side. Its turns out it is upside down in the photo :-(
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Ref: 20240224_d71_20240201_1046_006 silver birch trunk broken as 3 pieces with 1m section hollowed out by woodpecker 1 of 3(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 01 Feb 2024
at 10:47 Image of day on 24 Feb 2024
Here is the hole in the 1 metre section we find this interesting hole in the lower half.
Visually aligning the broken pieces (without transporting a ladder to get to the top
of the standing piece) suggests that the hole faced approximately north.
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Ref: 20240224_d71_20240201_1047_015 silver birch trunk broken as 3 pieces with 1m section hollowed out by woodpecker 2 of 3(r+mb id@432).jpg
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