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"Sacha" wrote
On 2009-08-12 22:30:31 +0100, "Spider" said:
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I once saw a Greater Spotted Woodpecker feeding her young in an old
dead
tree in our local wood. Magical ... unlike the pictures we tried to
take
:~{.

It's the Greater Spotted that we've seen on the tree here but someone
saw a green near here last week, though we haven't seen it yet. Hope
we do.

*is quietly smug about having both kinds visiting the garden*

I do have to admit we don't see the Greater Spotted ones quite so often
though. The green ones regularly visit, sometimes to drink at the
birdbath and quite often poking around in the lawn, presumably after
the ants. And more power to them - we always seem to have ant nests all
over the place.


We have both kinds and they have very separate feeding habits.

The GSW's (just a male at the moment) visit the feeding station in the
rear garden several times each day where they eat peanuts and copious
amounts of fat cake.

The Green only feeds on the front lawn (20+ ant nests) but frequently
goes on to remind the neighbourhood of its presence, with unmistakable
screeching, from high up in next doors oak trees.

--
Robert