Can you help me name these birds please (1 Viewer)

[frendlered]

I am not much of a twitcher (is that still the right phrase) But I love the Wildlife in my garden
I have a lot of different birds in my garden, Can you confirm the name of these two birds I know one is a woodpecker (i dont mean the sparrow, althouigh a great accidental photo in fl;ight ) . I get so many birds in the garden more because I put out boiled rice which they are more attracted to, rather than bird seed, The Woodpecker especially likes rice. Is this unuisual?







I don't know what this one is below, it spends
Most of the time swooping down quickly from the tree and quickly back again it does that all day long





Thanks beforehand

Robert

 

[West End Birder]

Great Spotted Woodpecker
Spotted Flycatcher

 

[West End Birder]

And think that is a House Sparrow bombing the GSW

 

[IDidiot]

I found this site about feeding wild birds rice. Can wild birds eat rice - Wildlifeful

 

[Andy Adcock]

I found this site about feeding wild birds rice. Can wild birds eat rice - Wildlifeful

Yes, after all, it's just a seed which has been processed.

There was a really hard to see bird (Coral-billed Ground Cuckoo) in Thailand which would come and eat scraps at the back of a restaurant the scraps were mainly rice. It was, at that time, almost the only way to see this bird.

 

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I don't know what this one is below, it spends
Most of the time swooping down quickly from the tree and quickly back again it does that all day long

I think the behaviour you described is called 'flycatching', and in every such sally the bird intends to catch an insect:

Hawking (birds) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Nice pictures; I especially like the aerial capture of that sparrow.