My Woodpecker is back!

How lovely Namsnanny. Is it a green woodpecker? We used to have green, spotted woodpeckers and lesser spotted woodpeckers in Essex but here in Gloucestershire I have only seen green woodpeckers and not any so far this year. Love to see your photos! hope you get lucky and manage to take some!

We've had both types here but not frequently.
They seem to love the ants and we have a lot of ants so I hope they arrive again this year.

We were on holiday in Cuba and I went back to our room for something. There was a terrible banging noise disturbing the peace in the gardens and it became louder as I got nearer to our room.
A woodpecker was hanging onto the wood along the top of our door and hammering a hole in the concrete!

Great spotted woodpeckers work their way along my fences, eating the insects/spiders which live there.
One year I saw a sparrowhawk take one and then we could hear a baby calling from its nest high in a tree. It was heartbreaking to hear the call get fainter over the next few days after which it obviously died.

I've just been reading the RSPB web site, and it says they will raid nest of tits and eat the eggs or young!

I wish I didnt know that now.

I think it's a Greater Spotted rite

We have a Sparrowhawk visit our garden most summers. He/she is successful in catching a bird in around a quarter of the attempts. But it is what it is.

We have woodpeckers in our London garden, they like the fatballs in the bird feeder.

I have woodpeckers nesting in the field behind the house. Last year one pecked the nesting box frightening off the resident blue tits - wee b****r! For all their cheek they’re very timid and getting a photo without seeing them off is quite difficult

Well you managed a good one there Marmite!?
Yes I'm finding it difficult to photographer him with my phone.
Maybe if I had a decent camera with a stand I'd have a better chance!
Nature is cruel isnt it?
The RSPB site said the birds the Woodpecker eat are too young to know enough to feel fear, so I suppose that's a blessing.

Well I'm flabbergasted to have just seen a bright green parakeet on a tree in our garden. We are in Birmingham!

I went out to go for a walk this afternoon and witnessed a jackdaw fly off with a young house sparrow that had apparently fallen from the nest.
We had a visiting female woodpecker during the winter, but she must be off to the woods to breed now.
Rather indistinct, but here she is.

I had a couple of green woodpeckers outside my window yesterday and managed to get this pic of one of them. I think he was eating insects.

we had a Dad (or Mum) and a baby last year I'm sure it was the Dad though as well, it just behaved like a Dad

They love ants, foxie48

I wish ours would return.

Not a recent photo but they love the fat balls. I borrowed mrM's camera. Occasionally we get a youngster down. We can hear them tapping in the woods and sometimes the sound is slightly different. I wondered why and mrM said it was them tapping on the nearby pylons to attract a mate. The sound is much louder.