All three woodpeckers in my garden (1 Viewer)

Dave Smith

Well-known member

• Jul 21, 2004

• #1

Well almost.

Today it was a nice surprise to see a female Gt Spotted Woodpecker on the peanuts. This is a first for our garden (in 30 years). I then remembered that last year we had a young Green Woodpecker on the lawn and some 20 years ago I found a dead Lesser Spotted Woodpecker just outside the back door. It was in perfect condition (apart from being dead).

So does that count as 2.5 woodpeckers have visited my garden

Dave

 

Charles Harper

Régisseur

• Jul 21, 2004

• #2

One seems to be a permanent resident, depending on your disposition of the remains.

 

Dave Smith

Well-known member

• Jul 21, 2004

• #3

Charles Harper said:

One seems to be a permanent resident, depending on your disposition of the remains.

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Not in my garden. A biologist friend buried it in his garden with the intention of recovering the skeleton later. Unfortunately he forgot where he buried it !!

Dave

 

pduxon

Quacked up Member

• Jul 21, 2004

• #4

I presume the Lesser was alive when it entered your garden? So all 3 have been alive in your garden at one time or another. Not you understand that I'm at all jealous

 

Dave Smith

Well-known member

• Jul 21, 2004

• #5

pduxon said:

I presume the Lesser was alive when it entered your garden? So all 3 have been alive in your garden at one time or another. Not you understand that I'm at all jealous

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It was good being able to see it close up, but I did have to wait something like 18 years to see one live.

Dave

 

headington7

Well-known member

• Jul 21, 2004

• #6

As was said before,it was alive in the garden at one time.Two out of thee have turned up regularly in my mother-in-law's,but all three is great !
Mervyn.

 

Tero

Retired

• Jul 21, 2004

• #7

For a moment I was confused by the ONLY 3 woodpeckers part, I thought it was Dave B Smith reporting!

We have plenty of woodpeckers, but I only feed birds in winter. We got two kinds to the feeder, Downy and Red Bellied.

 

Stonechat2

Tooty Fruity Member

• Jul 21, 2004

• #8

Hi Dave,

Great to hear about the tree wodies in your garden, i havn't had any visit yet. A friend in London has gt spotted woodpeckers visit her garden, but she thinks there lesser spotted woodpeckers. I don't want to try to be a party pooper so i just let her think that they are Lessers.

Steven

 

John N

Well-known member

• Jul 21, 2004

• #9

Great Spotted and Green Woodpecker have both visited our garden this year and 3 pair of Lesser Spotted were seen in a 2 mile radius in the breeding season. So I live in hope.

 

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joser

Well-known member

• Jul 21, 2004

• #10

I had a Gt Spotted visit in the summer of 2001 but im not holding out much hope for the other two. I think ive got more chance of a Dodo!!

 

pduxon

Quacked up Member

• Jul 21, 2004

• #11

Joser4red said:

I had a Gt Spotted visit in the summer of 2001 but im not holding out much hope for the other two. I think ive got more chance of a Dodo!!

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Uhm a bet that might be worth taking!!

 

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joser

Well-known member

• Jul 21, 2004

• #12

pduxon said:

Uhm a bet that might be worth taking!!

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Trust me, I wasn't intending to shake on it!!

 

Andy Bright

Administrator

Staff member

• Jul 21, 2004

• #13

Wot, no Wryneck?

 

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billj

Member

• Jul 21, 2004

• #14

Hi - Interesting to hear about other woodpeckers than we have in the mid-west of the US. I live in horse and buggy Amish Country, Ohio and have 6 kinds coming to our feeders. Downy, Hairy, Red-Bellied, N. Flicker, Pileated, and Red-headed. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker pass through here but I haven't seen them in our yard. Of course we have lots of other species. This morning E. Phoebe babies took off from the nest just outside one of the doors. Bill

 

moose1991

Alces alces

• Jul 21, 2004

• #15

I only get Woodie.