Grey headed (faced) woodpecker near Vienna / Bratislava (1 Viewer)

cranleighcrake · Apr 11, 2016

I am once again seeking my first sighting of the grey headed woodpecker! i shall be in the Vienna area early next month and i am keen to find this elusive woodpecker. Does anyone have specific sites in the region within areas such as the WWF reserve at Marchegg, Lednice in the Czech Republic or other nearby venues?

rosbifs · Apr 11, 2016

cranleighcrake said:
I am once again seeking my first sighting of the grey headed woodpecker! i shall be in the Vienna area early next month and i am keen to find this elusive woodpecker. Does anyone have specific sites in the region within areas such as the WWF reserve at Marchegg, Lednice in the Czech Republic or other nearby venues?

Someone will have some more specific info but does is not exist in some of the parks in Vienna? I know you can find it in central Salzburg....

njlarsen · Apr 11, 2016

Given that I have never seen it myself, I tried searching for observations. Take a look at
http://ebird.org/ebird/map/gyfwoo1?...=1-12&bmo=1&emo=12&yr=range&byr=2014&eyr=2016
http://observado.org/soort/view/989...nd=0&rows=20&os=0&hide_hidden=0&hide_hidden=1
Niels

Carnifex · Apr 11, 2016

Grey WP in Vienna

They are becoming even more elusive as the year proceeds. Never had them in May. However, you might be lucky in Lainzer Tiergarten area, especially in the northern part. Other parts of Wienerwald are also good and might even hold the chance of spotting a White-backed Wp - to me these guys are even more elusive as I never could find them so far in 5 years of searching...

Currently there are also frequent sightings from the other side of the Danube, in the Viennese part of NP Donauauen (Lobau), along with eg. Syrian Woodpecker.

Hardly any observations in Marchegg, however.

I would base my search maybe on what other species are of interest - forest vs. open-land/riparian forest species. Also, many orchids in Lobau at that time

Best,
Carnifex

MJB · Apr 13, 2016

cranleighcrake said:
I am once again seeking my first sighting of the grey headed woodpecker! i shall be in the Vienna area early next month and i am keen to find this elusive woodpecker. Does anyone have specific sites in the region within areas such as the WWF reserve at Marchegg, Lednice in the Czech Republic or other nearby venues?

I've seen them in Eisenstadt, in the grounds of the Esterhazy Palace. I know people who have seen or heard them in Laxenburg Park, south of Vienna.
MJB

Carnifex · Apr 13, 2016

MJB said:
I know people who have seen or heard them in Laxenburg Park, south of Vienna.
MJB

True, but as the park is regularly visited by birdwatchers and there have been no records of P. canus this year, I didn't want to recommend it

kb57 · Apr 19, 2016

On a birding trip as a teenager in the 1970s we had grey-headed woodpecker in Vienna, I think in Potzleinsdorf Park, but I guess they are rarer now? The other thing I remember is getting a nuthatch to feed from my hand, with a middle-spotted woodpecker a few metres away looking tempted to join it!

KenM · Apr 20, 2016

kb57 said:
The other thing I remember is getting a nuthatch to feed from my hand, with a middle-spotted woodpecker a few metres away looking tempted to join it!

Now that is really something!...had a Great Tit last year take peanuts from my hand in a London Park....only because it was regularly being fed by another park visitor.

kb57 · Apr 21, 2016

KenM said:
...had a Great Tit last year take peanuts from my hand in a London Park....only because it was regularly being fed by another park visitor.

I've never been anywhere before or since with such a high diversity of habituated wild birds - feeding them seemed to be a regular thing for a lot of park visitors. If I recall correctly it may have been a more central park in Vienna than Potzleinsdorf where I had the hand-feeding nuthatch.
Off to London tomorrow for a couple of days so I'll see if I can attract any great tits whilst attempting to bag ring-necked parakeet for my year list!

dantheman · Apr 21, 2016

kb57 said:
I've never been anywhere before or since with such a high diversity of habituated wild birds - feeding them seemed to be a regular thing for a lot of park visitors. If I recall correctly it may have been a more central park in Vienna than Potzleinsdorf where I had the hand-feeding nuthatch.
Off to London tomorrow for a couple of days so I'll see if I can attract any great tits whilst attempting to bag ring-necked parakeet for my year list!

Was in Hyde Park back in March - a Blue Tit landed on my hand next to where the feeders used by the RNP's were situated (alongside the NW side of the 'long water'). Bit of a surprise, and a shame I didn't have any actual food!

Wish I could comment on Grey-headed Woodpeckers mind ...

Carnifex · Apr 21, 2016

You can find very tame birds in Schönbrunn park, maybe this was the location you remember, kb57?
A nuthatch also came very close and squirrels climb up on you.

kb57 · Apr 21, 2016

Carnifex said:
You can find very tame birds in Schönbrunn park, maybe this was the location you remember, kb57?
A nuthatch also came very close and squirrels climb up on you.

Yes! Thanks for jogging my memory, it was Schönbrunn...in 1973!

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