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Woody returns.... 1st appearance this year
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 12:26 pm
by Bosscat
The local Woodpecker has returned to the nut feeders this morning.... 1st visit this year we are aware of.
Couldn't get a picture (he/she is extremely camera shy and the slightest movement frightens him/her) so this is one I managed last year.
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Re: Woody returns.... 1st appearance this year
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 1:10 pm
by 2510
Woodpecker pictured is a male. Red marking on the head that females don't have.
Re: Woody returns.... 1st appearance this year
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 1:25 pm
by Bosscat
Well then just a lady Wood Pecker (just black head markings) this morning...
Like I said this was last years picture, they are very shy
Re: Woody returns.... 1st appearance this year
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 1:55 pm
by Marney&Mee
2510 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 1:10 pm
Woodpecker pictured is a male. Red marking on the head that females don't have.
I was gonna say you've got good eyesight 2510...
Re: Woody returns.... 1st appearance this year
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 1:57 pm
by FactualFrank
I'm quite surprised nobody has asked if it's offside
Re: Woody returns.... 1st appearance this year
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 2:29 pm
by claretblue
Wood...not Woods!
Re: Woody returns.... 1st appearance this year
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 2:41 pm
by Bosscat
FactualFrank wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 1:57 pm
I'm quite surprised nobody has asked if it's offside
Stockley Park and VAR says its beak is definitely onside Frank
Re: Woody returns.... 1st appearance this year
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2020 2:06 am
by Buxtonclaret
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From a different angle?
Re: Woody returns.... 1st appearance this year
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2020 7:13 am
by JohnMac
Bloody hell Buxton, that's some lens to see all the way to Bosscat's garden
Re: Woody returns.... 1st appearance this year
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2020 7:28 am
by claretblue
fat balls!
Re: Woody returns.... 1st appearance this year
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2020 8:14 am
by Bosscat
You can get a cream for that
Re: Woody returns.... 1st appearance this year
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2020 7:23 pm
by Steve1956
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You guys get woodpeckers visiting you,today I bought some wood to do a few jobs and I was visited by an ostrich....beat that one BC!
Re: Woody returns.... 1st appearance this year
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2020 7:33 pm
by Bosscat
I raise your Ostrich one Meerkat (sort of
)
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Re: Woody returns.... 1st appearance this year
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2020 7:37 pm
by Steve1956
Come on!!!! Im not having that,it looks more like you than a meerkat.
Re: Woody returns.... 1st appearance this year
Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2020 11:54 am
by Bosscat
Back again this morning for a good feed...
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Re: Woody returns.... 1st appearance this year
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2020 12:29 am
by COBBLE
Never seen from near home but think I saw one in Hyde Park. Does that seem likely?
Re: Woody returns.... 1st appearance this year
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2020 8:09 am
by steve_f
- Dad and youngster
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Re: Woody returns.... 1st appearance this year
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2020 8:49 am
by CJW
2510 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 1:10 pm
Woodpecker pictured is a male. Red marking on the head that females don't have.
Nope.
It's a juvenile and cannot be sexed. They all have red crowns at that age.
Re: Woody returns.... 1st appearance this year
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2020 11:23 am
by ottclaret
Working from home, I have had my desk set up looking out on to our bird feeder. Woody is regular visitor and I can't resist snapping a few shot off.
Not sure how to post pictures but I will give it a go...
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Re: Woody returns.... 1st appearance this year
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2020 11:37 am
by ottclaret
That seems to have worked, so here is another unusual shot in that he doesn't normally allow other birds to be on feeder at the same time.
Saw him with a youngster yesterday, haven't got a decent shot of that yet.
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Re: Woody returns.... 1st appearance this year
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2020 11:39 am
by bodge
They are brilliant photographs ott.
Re: Woody returns.... 1st appearance this year
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2020 11:43 am
by ottclaret
Thanks - pretty pleased with them myself!
Re: Woody returns.... 1st appearance this year
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2020 11:45 am
by ottclaret
Thanks - pretty pleased with them myself! He is a bit of a star, so I can't take all the credit!
Re: Woody returns.... 1st appearance this year
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2020 12:04 pm
by warksclaret
Does this mean Chris Wood has gone down the pecking order
Re: Woody returns.... 1st appearance this year
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2020 12:37 pm
by Bosscat
ottclaret wrote: ↑Sun Jun 14, 2020 11:37 am
That seems to have worked, so here is another unusual shot in that he doesn't normally allow other birds to be on feeder at the same time.
Saw him with a youngster yesterday, haven't got a decent shot of that yet.
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Our visitor hates it when other birds arrive too normally ..... but lately he/she has been less nervous.
My sisters sees a pair visiting her feeder too, she thinks its a parent and youngster.