turlough: view of wet road through rain speckled window ((other) let it rain)
[personal profile] turlough2023-01-04 07:38 pm
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Woodpecker in the rain

No matter how hard it rains I don't think I've ever seen a bird looking wet before but this Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) that visited one of my feeders today looked distinctly damp!

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black and white bird with red markings on bird feeder

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[personal profile] turlough2022-03-02 04:32 pm
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woodpecker visit

A male Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) has been visiting my bird feeders the last couple of weeks and today I managed to take this photo of him:

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black and white bird with red markings on bird feeder
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nanila: wrong side of the mirror (me: wrong side of the mirror)
[personal profile] nanila2015-09-04 01:45 pm
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Great spotted woodpecker



Works very hard to extract each peanut from the feeder, then flies to sit on the branch and munch on it.
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