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Birds - Woodpeckers Page 17
Image Taken on 19 Apr 2023
at 14:15 Image of day on 04 Jun 2023
A male Green Woodpecker visits again this time at the Meadow Post ...
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Image Taken on 24 Oct 2025
at 13:54 Image of day on 13 Dec 2025
Whilst making our initial pass through half-a-weeks 4,000 pics we had just
commented that the Green Woodpecker(s) seem to have departed, when
this consecutive pair of pics popped up on the screen.
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Image Taken on 07 Jun 2023
at 10:15 Image of day on 01 Aug 2023
First glimpsed probing soil in a recently mowed grass path, the male Green
Woodpecker spent several minutes on the top of the Meadow Post. Spotting him on
the CCTV caused a stampede to the room with the camera covering this post to
fire off lots more pics (well over 100) of this event. Here are an assortment of
pics taken in the 12 minutes of the birds vigorous activity.
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Image Taken on 07 Jun 2023
at 10:25 Image of day on 01 Aug 2023
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Image Taken on 07 Jun 2023
at 10:25 Image of day on 01 Aug 2023
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Image Taken on 24 May 2024
at 08:33 Image of day on 17 Jun 2024
This male Green Woodpecker comes down from the Meadow post to peck
over the ground at the meadow site before returning to the post, where
he rubs off the sticky mud from his bill that he picked up probing the ground.
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Image Taken on 04 Jul 2023
at 12:36 Image of day on 31 Aug 2023
Green Woodpeckers seem to be very active when on the top of the Meadow Post.
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Image Taken on 02 Jul 2023
at 09:37 Image of day on 29 Aug 2023
A male Green Woodpecker on the meadow post.
Probably 2 different visits 15 minutes apart (right then left).
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Image Taken on 17 Sep 2023
at 09:49 Image of day on 08 Nov 2023
This looks like the juvenile male Green Woodpecker has almost transitioned to adulthood.
This is two visits - on the left sequential frames a minute apart, and the right hand landing
40 minutes later, now looking much sleeker but many details indicate the same bird.
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Image Taken on 14 Jul 2023
at 09:47 Image of day on 09 Sep 2023
Green Woodpeckers are active birds, flying about looking for their small invertebrates.
They most like ants, but unfortunately we don't have any suitable to auto-photograph.
And Green woodpecker flee at the first hint of a human.
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Image Taken on 06 Sep 2023
at 09:54 Image of day on 26 Oct 2023
We seem to be rather fond of our skittish Green Woodpeckers - more usually heard
(fleeing away and calling) than seen. This is a adult male showing front and back.
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Image Taken on 06 Jun 2025
at 08:45 Image of day on 25 Jul 2025
A sight we have seen in several years - a Green Woodpecker on the side of
one of the huge poles that support the 11kV power cables. They are creosoted
(or some modern equivalent) and we can't think why they are interested in this wood.
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Image Taken on 23 Jun 2024
at 12:50 Image of day on 22 Jul 2024
We usually see Green Woodpecker on this pole top from inside our patch.
Here, across the tonnes of soil heaps the bird seems unusually tolerant of our
presence - enough time to aim the camera before the bird departed
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Image Taken on 23 Jun 2024
at 12:50 Image of day on 22 Jul 2024
Camera resolution extract of the middle moment.
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Image of day on 03 Aug 2005
For the first time we have seen young green woodpeckers here.
There are at least two, and this one is standing on top of a
Great Tit nestbox mounted on a dead elm. Last year a Great
Spotted Woodpecker pair wrecked the box as you can see, but did
not use it last year nor this so it's time for replacement.
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Image Taken on 25 Nov 2014
at 11:33 Image of day on 16 Jan 2015
This is the first good sighting of an adult Green Woodpecker this
year. This is a male probing the soft ground at the edge of the
main pond, not that all the grassy paths aren't soft after all the rain.
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Image Taken on 07 Feb 2016
at 12:02 Image of day on 10 Mar 2016
Green Woodpeckers often push their whole beaks deep into the soft
soil/mud to find their prey. From what we can see they manoeuvre
about to find items with their beak & tongue, and pull them into
the beak while still underground.
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Image Taken on 07 Feb 2016
at 12:05 Image of day on 10 Mar 2016
Green Woodpeckers often push their whole beaks deep into the soft
soil/mud to find their prey. From what we can see they manoeuvre
about to find items with their beak & tongue, and pull them into
the beak while still underground.
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Image Taken on 07 Feb 2016
at 12:29 Image of day on 10 Mar 2016
Near the end of her feed we get a glimpse of the female Green Woodpecker's tongue,
probably cleaning out the sticky muddy mess inside her beak!
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Image Taken on 07 Feb 2016
at 12:02 Image of day on 10 Mar 2016
Of about 600 camera images we caught only this single instance of
food visible in her beak - in this case right at the tip. We have
no idea what the muddy prey might have been, but it had vanished
inside the beak only a fifth of a second later!
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