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Great spotted woodpecker. (1 Viewer)

Zuzu

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This may not be interesting enough for this section as its not the most exotic or rare bird ever but I do love that it comes and feeds regularly from our feeders. the lesser spottd woodpecker (we also have a regular greater spotted woodpecker visiting but never at the same time as the lesser.)

other than that we had the usual suspects today.
green finches, chaffinches, coal tit, great tits, and a few blue tits. the table had mostly robins and blackbirds.
 

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Hi Zuzu

A lovely picture you've taken of this woodie at your feeders - wish I had some visiting here!

It's a juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker, though, not a Lesser, unfortunately, or I'd have come for tea;)

Compare the difference in the spots - the Great has a large white patch on the wing, whereas the Lesser has lots of small spots all over.
 
thank you for the correction. i saw the big red spot on its head and tried to identify it out of a book. its one of those books that has "illustrations" and they never look anything like the real birds.
i obviously didnt study it properly.

sadly cant change the title of my post so many apologies to anyone coming in expecting the lesser....
 
Aaaw... not to worry Zuzu - we've all been there - er.. ummm... well I have anyway!

I've changed the thread title for you... you can't do that. I don't know if you now want to edit your first post - up to you.
 
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