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zwartbles

  • Joined Sep 2011
Green Woodpeckers
« on: July 08, 2016, 07:59:03 am »
Young green woodpeckers are now out and about. They spend as much time finding insects on the ground as they do in the trees!!

Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
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Re: Green Woodpeckers
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2016, 09:16:08 am »
How lovely.  I'm amazed you have green woodpeckers - we've never seen them here all the time we've lived here, and I assumed they didn't occur in this area.

We have taken great delight in watching a little family of Dad, Mum and two greater spotted woodpeckers around our garden and learning how to use the bird feeder.  Isn't it a lovely time of year  :thumbsup:
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in the hills

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Re: Green Woodpeckers
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2016, 12:07:35 pm »
It is lovely to watch all the young birds.

Never seen a green woodpecker here either ... just the great spotted.

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Re: Green Woodpeckers
« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2016, 12:23:41 pm »
fantastic picture, we don't have any woodpeckers around here let alone green ones. I do love to see differents species, thanks for posting. :)
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zwartbles

  • Joined Sep 2011
Re: Green Woodpeckers
« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2016, 07:07:53 pm »
We are fortunate here in Norfolk to have a really wide variety of birdlife. I will post more pics as available ;D .

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Re: Green Woodpeckers
« Reply #5 on: July 08, 2016, 09:12:41 pm »
fantastic picture, we don't have any woodpeckers around here let alone green ones. I do love to see differents species, thanks for posting. :)

Surprised if you really don't have any ... very few areas of country don't have any ... do you put out food for wild birds?
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Bramblecot

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Re: Green Woodpeckers
« Reply #6 on: July 10, 2016, 06:53:23 pm »
The woodpeckers spend ages on our 'lawn' pecking at the ants nests.  And there is a spotted woodpecker nest in a dead branch of an overgrown willow.  When your garden is not very tidy, there seems to be a lot more wildlife :D . Must try to take more photos.

 

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