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Birds - Woodpeckers Page 18
Image Taken on 30 Jan 2010
at 13:52 Image of day on 01 Mar 2010
After a bit of an absence a green woodpecker appeared
for a forage in a rather photogenic leaf litter.
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Image Taken on 25 Dec 2018
at 09:25 Image of day on 30 Jan 2019
A male Green Woodpecker stops for a few minutes on the meadow post. First
hanging down the side (right) he then shuffled up to perch on the edge.
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Image Taken on 16 Jun 2024
at 11:07 Image of day on 16 Jul 2024
Within 5 minutes we see the Green Woodpecker on the Meadow Post top and
then getting their beak caked in mud probing the ground at the Meadow site.
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Image Taken on 30 Apr 2011
at 07:23 Image of day on 03 Jun 2011
Green Woodpeckers are more commonly seen on the ground probing the soil
for things to eat. So you don't usually see the tongue in action as here.
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Image Taken on 18 May 2011
at 11:22 Image of day on 27 Jun 2011
It then moved onto the ash tree on 'Dragon Pond' island and did a bit
of half-hearted pecking.
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Image Taken on 07 Feb 2016
at 12:01 Image of day on 09 Mar 2016
The female Green Woodpecker flew straight to an old post but
only stayed for a minute or two. This might be how you expect to
see a woodpecker, and for most types in the UK this is true. But
the Green Woodpecker spends most of it's time feeding on ants and
similar on the ground, which is where she went next, quite near
the bottom of this pole.
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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 01 Jul 2025
at 20:13 Image of day on 21 Aug 2025
This adult male Green Woodpecker made visits to the Meadow Post about half an hour apart.
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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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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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