Woodpeckers in the Garden

[KUSKUS]

I have two regular visitors to the Garden, top one is the female and the bottom one is the male.
Quality isn't great as its taken through two double glazed windows.

 

[bobandjanie]

We had them when we lived in Suffolk, also green ones they are fairly good at emptying feeders.
Out the front of our cottage we had a river and often had king fishers sat on the footbridge with a fish in its beak. Bob.

 

[Bernie P]

We've got two pairs come to visit our Peanut feeders on a daily basis. One pair definately had a youngster this year, we had the pleasure of watching them feeding it.

Had one of the Red Kites landed briefly on the lawn the other week, I'd hoped he'd got the pesky mole but alas it appears not! The Kites and the the Buzzards are truely magnificent to watch when they glide gracefully over the garden.

 

[bigwood]

When I was stationed in Germany we had woodpeckers in the woods at the back of our accommodation block. I was surprised how loud they are not having seen or heard them before.

 

[Dave parse]

We’ve got red and green ones frequenting our garden a couple of months ago I counted five baby reds hopping around on the grass

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[denisejoe]

Couple of years ago had a sparrow hawk attack a load of sparrows on our bird table they escaped into a nearby hedge watched him trying to stretch into the hedge after them

 

[Nanniemate]

I have one visits occasionally but had a family that returned year after year in my parents garden sadly the people that bought the house ripped down all the trees hedges reduced the house from 4 bedrooms to 2 and turned the garden into a car carpark,

no accounting for taste,

 

[CazPaul]

I have one visits occasionally but had a family that returned year after year in my parents garden sadly the people that bought the house ripped down all the trees hedges reduced the house from 4 bedrooms to 2 and turned the garden into a car carpark,

no accounting for taste,

Thats terrible, no wonder a lot of birds have seriously decreased in numbers over the years.

 

[Cherub]

We have a permanent family of them and saw a youngster being fed by one of the parents. Lovely to watch. We also have 4 red squirrels and lots of other furry and feathered friends. a few years ago a red squirrel fell in our open window and hubby was amazed at it’s weight when he picked it up. We used to have a family of stoats play on the lawn regularly and I sent photos to David Attenborough as he did his programme “Stoats in the priory”. I got a lovely hand written thank you letter from him which I still have and he also returned my photos (pre digital age). He said it was unusual to capture a whole family at one time.