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Great Spotted Woodpecker
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
Great spotted woodpeckers are black and white with vivid red under the tail. Males have a red patch on the nape of their neck: females do not. Juvenile birds have red crowns. They are the commonest British woodpeckers and can be seen throughout Britain, except the far north of Scotland, but, like other woodpeckers, they are absent from Ireland. ‘Great spots’ search for food by working their way up a tree, sharply tapping the trunk. Using their beaks they prise off fragments of bark and extract insects with their sticky tongues. If you hear a loud 'drumming', it is more than likely a great spotted woodpecker: this sound is made witht he bill, hammered rapidly against a branch in a short, vibrant burst. Each year a pair of woodpeckers excavates a new nest in a tree, often a dead oak or birch. In May or June the female lays four to seven eggs and both parents share the incubation. The chicks fledge about three weeks after hatching, but take 12 months to mature. Great spotted woodpeckers have one brood each year.
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Ton,
I really like this image,
really the the parts of nature that framed the image is great,
I also notice the small head in the tree hole.
Nice
fototab
excellent capture of a interesting moment.
Especially light and colors are great.
TFS
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