Holywells Park Blue Tit Box Woodpecker Predation - Full Timeline - May 2015

[@lande123456789]

There is a reason why people put metal caseings around the hole.....

[@kyfarm]

Plus the hole is just too big to start with, poor birds.

[@hardlines2635]

I tried that, the woodpecker pecked away at the bottom of the box and destroyed it, I build them out of decking board now.

[@asmronly24]

@@hardlines2635 Still good to have it. 99% of the time it works.

[@dougcharles5004]

This is nature unfortunately all creatures have to eat as hard as it is to watch

[@MrSteelface96]

@@kyfarm lol no it's not to big, if it was then the pecker wouldn't have needed to peck it bigger. think for a moment before you type shit.

[@Skrubb_Lord]

Babies: Oh! Food delivery? Woodpecker: Nope. Takeout.

[@ajemberwood6119]

🤣🤣😭😭🤧

[@sagwe80]

Oof

[@TheBuddy303]

Lmao

[@otakuhunter4817]

lmao

[@xcpryt]

LMAO

[@tuquoque7322]

Recap: Babies are fed. Woodpecker begins intrusion. After a couple of minutes it can now enter the nest and takes the first baby. Parent returns and notices the enlarged entrance, and notices one of the babies missing. Parent recognizes presence of another bird outside, which is the Woodpecker. Woodpecker attacks and pulls parent out. Woodpecker subsequently takes another baby. And another. And another. Parent returns to see less babies (final time parent is seen). Woodpecker returns to take remaining babies. My guess is that the babies were abandoned by the remaining parent, because I think when the Woodpecker pulled the other parent out it was either injured, killed or just abandoned the nest.

[@kewanahchongsyafii3763]

👍

[@carolbonett9025]

You think we are blind?

[@Ritual_Abuser]

The first parent (mother) likely died off screen. The second parent (father) the less aware and bigger bird likely followed soon after for the pecker to have casual access like that.

[@lalruatfela3394]

@@carolbonett9025 hey cranky old grandpa, take your meds. and go back to sleep.

[@yukyukyuk161]

​@@carolbonett9025 he's just recapping what we saw, no need to assume so much and act like an asshat over it

[@robinarrington5498]

Now i understand the metal plate with hole in it screwed to the outside of other peoples nesting boxes.

[@austin1839]

This totally ruins my childhood memories of Woody Woodpecker.

[@RODRIGO-TRINDADE]

Kkkkkkkkkkkkkk

[@RashaKahn]

If I remember correctly, Woody Woodpecker was kinda a dick too....

[@CT-BONITA]

Damn

[@anderspersson7084]

Wait untill I tell you about a Squirell that did this, and stole eggs also.

[@LicensetoIL]

HA HA HA HAA HAAAA

[@ongwy66]

No wonder some nest boxes came with a steel plated entrance, which would prevent larger predators from enlarging the opening further to help themselves to a youngling buffet.

[@iseriver3982]

Woodpeckers would just peck a different hole. They're wood peckers.

[@rebelslave2861]

yes but he doesn't invest in metal boxes cause he wont get as many views

[@sergiohuerta4438]

Lo ideal para evitar saqueadores de nidos, forrar con lámina el exterior de la casita.

[@ariboo94]

lmao at youngling buffet.

[@felipec7845]

@@sergiohuerta4438 Esos que tu llamas saqueadores solo son animales tratando de alimentarse de manera natural, nosotros los humanos no deberiamos de intervenir en el proceso natural que la ciencia llama " cadena alimenticia " y seleccion natural , en la escuela no te enseñaron acerca de eso ? si tanto te preocupa la vida animal porque tambien no dices como evitar matar las vacas, cerdos y pollos que proveen de carne en nuestros alimentos , nosotros somos los verdaderos saquadores no los animales, ellos actuan por instinto

[@pattiniamo10]

It's a powertool on wings , the woodpecker has enlarged that hole so easily.

[@dylanwilliger]

Just imagine that thing with teeth, clawed hands, and a long tail....

[@lambda494]

Man that's rough. Sometimes you get food, sometimes you are food.

[@edwardgaines6561]

Such is life.

[@michaeljordan8248]

reading this with joey tribianni's voice kinda funny

[@captnkirk6180]

Sometimes you're the bug, sometimes you're the windshield.

[@dylanwilliger]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4fJqZZ_iqeie5o

[@ousmaailayoub5727]

The fact they stopped opening their mouths for food when they hear someone coming is saddening

[@its_taps]

No it's not. If they'd kept their mouths quiet from the beginning the woodpecker would've never found them

[@akalion213]

@@its_taps Wait why are you telling someone what is and isn't saddening lmao

[@randomhuman97]

@@its_taps are you joking?? The woodpecker often scouts nests for food The chicks are blind and only can understand sound. Di you expect babies to be silent when Jason enters the room??

[@ItsChilli]

@@its_taps Genius

[@its_taps]

@@randomhuman97 Jason is a fictional character dumbass plus idgaf what a baby does! Animals run off instinct genius! So stfu!

[@weltonmarshall5571]

Didn't know they ate other birds wow.

[@michaelcranston5660]

New to me too. I thought woodpeckers just ate bugs.

[@RoyalHungarianAF]

Actually not a rare case. You can find other similar wildlife camera footages.

[@TheSafierdrgn]

Well they are squishy like grubs at that size...

[@dmitrybondarev7885]

They are not picky, any protein is protein.

[@SuperLara007]

Many birds, literally almost all of them will eat chicks. They might not eat other birds on a regular but they eat eggs and chicks

[@eightinches6094]

Note to people who make bird houses....make the entry hole a little smaller or put a small piece of sheet metal around the hole so woodpeckers can't peck through it. Also make the boxes a little deeper.

[@jmcplus]

I've bought 3 nest boxes for the next spring. There is woodpeeker in my garden. So I'll quickly make 3 ring to protect the nest boxes.

[@tondalayakapoofnick2681]

That's stupid. A woodpecker can make its own hole anywhere it wants to.

[@mattwroe4776]

It can't a hole in the sides if there's nothing to stand on make sure no branches or anything and reinforce the hole so it can't widen it. Plus it's much harder to start a new hole than widen one even if the woodpecker is even intelligent enough that making a hole in the side of the box will lead to the same nest, it's obvious to us but maybe not a woodpecker

[@eightinches6094]

@@mattwroe4776 Correct, woodpeckers don't think like humans.

[@seanlee7563]

IT'S HEARTWRENCHING TO WITNESS THIS PREDATION AS ESPECALLY THEY WERE THE LITTLE BABIES.

[@antigonish63]

This is why you must have an extension with a metal collar around the opening of a nest box. Doesn't bother the small residents at all, prevents massacres like this.

[@adityakr.7971]

Absolutely ryt...why to make them suffer like this horrible situation..

[@patd6370]

@Asashi Rude.

[@Svadilfare]

@@SuperKane68 Birds eat worms and insects all the time, how is this any different? It's the cicle of life, nothing more.

[@stevend2377]

@Asashi point went right over your head.

[@jefffraley7094]

Thank you! You are exact right. They should build doors from steel and glass like KFC!!

[@ToxicVaccines_HivHoax]

I'm off watching some videos of sparrow hawks eating woodpeckers to make me feel better.

[@kyfarm]

I have woodpeckers that have lived here for years, I feed them and have loved watching them. But not so much today...

[@baykovvitube]

And then owl attacks hawk's nest

[@karebear7669]

😅

[@Nyarlathoteplol]

@@baykovvitube And then a bear shows up...

[@baykovvitube]

@@Nyarlathoteplol dn about bear, but I watched lynx kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKGTlGmInJWBp6Ogynx

[@redhoode.n.y.6314]

The bird quadruple checked before entering like hold up this hole is bigger than the norm

[@AtzinColinPillado]

And The fathers??

[@EvangelionPower]

Chicks: "We're hungry!" Woodpecker: "Too bad, so am I!"

[@melquizedec]

woodpecker didnt eat them.....just let him drop to the ground.....he wanted the place as home/nest

[@seanbania8221]

HAHAHAHAHAHHA

[@santiagoalfaro1571]

WHAT DO U MEAN? I TRIED TO SAVE A BABY BIRD AND IT SADLY DIED. 😭😭😭💔💔💔

[@terezahola339]

@@melquizedec of course woodpecker ate them or feed its own babies. It feeds on baby birds!

[@two_tone_bandit]

Chicks: "We're so hungry!" Woodpecker: "Same lmao"

[@user-rh9bp2dz5k]

he stuffed himself so full it was hard to get in there towards the last few birds that he ate

[@warbellytime1738]

It didn't eat the babies. You think a bird that size would eat ten baby birds in a matter of minutes?it was throwing the chicks out so it could start a nest of its own. Cavity nesting birds regularly do this because since these type of nesting sites are usually hard to find.

[@ME-ru4hv]

@@warbellytime1738 it didn't eat the babies? Why is everyone a teacher teaching nonsense? kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWXSdoBmjJugnq8

[@ME-ru4hv]

R.T You are 100% right in your observation.

[@TovKafur]

@@warbellytime1738 Birds have insane metabolism, tho.

[@rendellbartholomew2742]

LOL!!

[@two_tone_bandit]

"Listen, and understand! That [Woodpecker] is out there! It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever, until you are dead!"

[@rookiefishing9753]

@Hammerschlägen M Or get eaten by a Sparrow Hawk !

[@Adam-pu6jg]

Actually, its "until you are in its belly" As for these killer birds, they trace their DNA lineage back to Fat Bastard

[@troywright359]

Woodpeckers don't feel pain. I do.

[@LG-kl3co]

Must have been a T800 sent back in time to kill the little chicks ?

[@kito1san]

Well this is the whole food chain. It's nature of survival of the fittest.

[@simoncuming41]

The box should have been covered with chicken wire or had a metal plate inserted especially if it's in woodpecker territory!

[@DerKl0wn]

Or a metal portal protector. They are really cheap and can help bird boxes.

[@artbart860]

it's nature. the titmouse chooses this place, it turns out to be unsuccessful, the woodpecker gets to the chicks. metal rings are the same interference with the natural course of things, as, for example, shooting woodpeckers around the nest of tits.

[@Iwantbelieve]

@@artbart860 one could say that building nest boxes is interference with natural thinds as well. And woodbeckers primary food is not another birds, they should be okay even without access to nest boxes. I

[@YuffX]

@@artbart860 woodpecker using his beak to get inside (1:00) is interference with landlord's property tho and a clear violation of NAP. Point-and-shooty time it is then

[@Andy-ir1sj]

It's just another day in the food chain department, the only difference is that it's on camera this time around.

[@dynamicdave2647]

U could see how the mother bird knows that its only a matter of time, she notices that the hole got bigger

[@Spectacular0_4]

Yes i know that's why she was feeling weird

[@lainiwaku]

when someone told you that human are violent and animal adorable... ahah

[@grandwizard1328]

So you live in the wild and hunt for your food

[@networknomad5600]

@@grandwizard1328 It’s called being smart enough to farm your own food.

[@ItsChilli]

Humans have or supposed to have an understanding of right and wrong, good or bad and morals. Animals don't as they follow instinct and whatnot. Therefore no matter how cruel even I can find nature to be humans will always and have always been the biggest pest on this planet and can be the greatest of evil. Nature is balance. Humanity is chaos.

[@mirulscott870]

@@ItsChilli yas

[@MusicSetAdrift]

@@ItsChilli Or maybe we humans are crazy arrogant and really think animals dont know "Right and wrong" as if humans all share the same concepts of what that is. We are all animals. We share the same space. The animals we pretend to lorde over have lived on this planet millions of years before us and will live afterwards. We are a blip. We are only an evil to ourselves. If "Global Warming/Climate Change" flooded the world the would still be fish and the majority of microbial life to maintain the planet. What wont be here is what we find cute...

[@SpaceeCookiee]

This just broke my heart 🥺

[@ariboo94]

It's part of nature though.

[@dylanwilliger]

That's what happens in nature.

[@lockandloadlikehell]

It's like the Shining when jack breaks down the door with his axe and sticks his head into the bathroom

[@sillyskeleton]

Heeere's Woody!

[@thelouisfanclub]

The mom coming back and looking at the whole like “aw shit” is so sad 😭 she can’t do anything about it

[@bigymaxify]

She feed them till the end

[@dynamicdave2647]

U could see how the mother bird knows that its only a matter of time, she notices that the hole got bigger

[@kukizubr]

@@bigymaxify накормила 🤣🤣

[@shannonreed9808]

This video should be playing on loop around every shop selling birdboxes without metal protection around the entrance hole 🙄, so many birdboxes sold made from cheap soft woods, gotta be impressed with woodpeckers quick hole widening ability though, those birds are insane 😳

[@PeowPeowPeowLasers]

Thing is, woodpeckers need to eat too. There's nothing really "wrong" about them doing so.

[@shannonreed9808]

@@PeowPeowPeowLasers true, but birds are smart, woodpeckers will see bird boxes as a "easy meal" rather than finding natural wild nests. Birdboxes may as well have a "Diner" of "cafe" neon sign on the front. Birds nesting in them should at least have some safety, as far as they know, its pretty safe and sturdy, knowing not of the wood structure sometimes being rather weak in itself, they put trust in relative safety, to be let down, and yes, if.. Woodpeckers find a natural nest hole with inhabitants, they can get into them, but taking a lot longer, and way more chances of parent birds coming back and driving woodpecker away.. Maby?, but a vast majority I'd say, of nest boxes are just so quick and easy to raid, reducing parents chances of catching said woodpecker in action, thats all.. He says 😂

[@adotintheshark4848]

Babies: "Oh look it's Woody" Woodpecker: "Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!"

[@edwardgaines6561]

3:03 At least he put up a fight.

[@Stunna-xn6iq]

Did the woodpecker get the parent?

[@shoopersaiyan]

@@Stunna-xn6iq really

[@DatBwoiXERXESdem]

That was no fight lol bird brain instinct wanted out asap

[@yavin99]

He was food to.

[@vadims8742]

@@Stunna-xn6iq I do not think so: the woodpecker appeared at the entrance in a part of a second. So, do you think he ate the parent tit in that time?

[@agl1138]

The timeline appears wonky - the number of infants seems to go back up at one point

[@ElizabethBattle]

I noticed that. Weird.

[@zarohawk]

Chicks being under the other one, or new eggs hatching,

[@reo2771031]

Baby birds: give me food Predator: be my food

[@StandWithRussia]

When the woodpecker comes the chicks are like PICK ME! PICK ME!

[@posteniokub3139]

Suicide....god

[@BlackLense]

That how chick react to the wood.

[@TovKafur]

Kinda, if i was as ugly and useless as a baby bird, i'd like to be eaten too.

[@IowaKim]

DIY MAN Oh boy, that’s dark.

[@brucecain7056]

A woodpecker widening the hole like that, must be the equivalent of leaving the front door open

[@Redslayer86]

Meanwhile the news is trying to convince me animals are better than humans are are all friends lol

[@eastonvonschist2283]

Humans are animals!

[@rabd3721]

Um... what? Lol who the f*ck is saying that?

[@grandwizard1328]

Yea because they are real hunt for their food... uncivilized. Animals are not posting stuff on KZbin from their AC rooms and getting their food delivered. Not harming nature by animal agriculture.

[@eastonvonschist2283]

@@grandwizard1328 Humans are animals and saying they are civilized is a big stretch .

[@hag8752]

@@grandwizard1328 I'd say humans are domesticated

[@lolmetswhathappeneduhhh2029]

It executed order 66

[@czechlessonswithmarcela9963]

Thanks for posting this... it's very heart-breaking but it's good to know what's going on when we are not around!

[@Afshincmdrat]

Thanks for the representation of the real nature.

[@lukeparsons6305]

nerd

[@beenis9842]

yea man birds eating each other is the cold hard truth there definitely aren't worse things that happen than that

[@efaristi9737]

that's gruesome, he didn't come just to fill his stomach, he come and come until he has emptied the nest, that's vicious. and all that in two hours.

[@TheScamr]

She got so fat she had problems getting out of the box later on.

[@annehenry6243]

Well, I imagine the woodpeckers have mouths to feed too.

[@NiEVLOVER_Bluel]

@@annehenry6243 Exactly

[@piggoy]

Here's Johnny!

[@rendellbartholomew2742]

I was thinking the same thing. 😆 LOL!!

[@chrishauser5505]

Beat me to it. 🤣

[@joedon9758]

Thats made my day :DDD

[@YesDaddyTDPop]

Here’s uncle woody is what I was thinking 😂

[@lucasguenesmenezes6416]

I can't laugh.....I can't laugh.....hahahahaha

[@fritzjagr5121]

I have a woodpecker just like this who comes to my feeders and I love him. Makes me sad to see a similar woodpecker killing these poor baby blue tits, but that's just nature I guess. I'd put a metal guard around the nest box hole to prevent the woodpecker from being able to widen the hole and reach the babies.

[@elfalcon666]

Dont worry all wood peckers do that, its just thair natural instincts they couldnt stop it if they tried

[@MusicSetAdrift]

Just because we humans associate something doesn't mean they do. Why should a woodpecker not eat a baby bird if we can eat baby every other animal/plant. (Saplings etc are baby plants, plants indeed work to protect themselves and plenty people eat primates).

[@Yaalimadad24434]

Don't worry woodpecker will find a way ,he will find Vasline somewhere and squeeze into any hole🎯

[@mediocreman6323]

Am I the only one siding with the woodpecker? There is a number of jokes that come to my mind: • Human: "Small tits are not good for feeding." Woodpecker: "Wrong." • Nestlings: "Haha! The hole is too small for you! What'cha gonna do? Chisel your way through?" Woodpecker: "Actually…" Nestlings: SIKE! • Nestlings: "Oh great, food!" Woodpecker: "Correct…" Well, it's a a bird-eat-bird-world out there. So relax, those small birds are prey, they have high reproduction rates. They won't die out any time soon.

[@TovKafur]

Baby birds are annoying sausages who shit everywhere. Eating them = putting them to good use.

[@TheMouseMasterYT]

3:00 "oh, you want to defend your chicks?" ~yank~

[@TragoudistrosMPH]

I honestly thought that might have been enough to stop it...

[@Gman6755]

You knew those baby birds were fucked when those wood chips started flying!

[@mayankaggarwal6575]

I love to see that the chicks thought that food has come but don't know that they're the food

[@everrileyraye9369]

Right? Greedy little mouths open and everything...

[@someguyontheinternet2399]

You....enjoyed that carnage....?

[@mayankaggarwal6575]

@@someguyontheinternet2399 it's nature bro.. It is cruel, eat or to be eaten

[@CuddlytheCuttlefish]

0:39 I laughed when the babies where just out of the woodpecker's reach so it stretched out it's tongue and licked them.

[@ME-ru4hv]

yes! what a creepo I thought too

[@ebonimom6964]

Had to get a sample to make sure it had the right flavor he was looking for

[@tabbzkmp9764]

me too!! shit that was funny

[@Jeed71]

what a pedophilia bird

[@viktorbirkeland6520]

@@Jeed71 age is just a number

[@mike100istcompilations9]

They need to use a metal plate around the hole so woodpecker cant peck at it

[@UndefinedBailiwick]

The whole thing would have to be made out of metal. Woodpeckers can be very tenacious and would likely start drilling the exposed parts.

[@ArtistGoodie]

we don't need to make any solution for them. That is the wildlife bro ;)

[@KhairulHakim007]

they can even peck vibranium

[@tatianapantazopoulou7518]

Exactly. What is the point to put a camera in a nest when you do not install a metal plate?you want to witness this horrible psychopath bird?

[@t0lex14]

@@tatianapantazopoulou7518 Psychopath? You are saying we all are psychopaths? And btw there is big diffirence of killing for your own pleassure and killing to be alive, you know that right?

[@cherepaha3]

Nature is cruel.

[@edwardgaines6561]

That's the point. Not everyone can be a pussy vegan.

[@truefailure6359]

Nature has no morals. It has only one desire, one goal: Survive by any means necessary.

[@edwardgaines6561]

@@truefailure6359 Nietzsche would be proud! 😛

[@ozurking4748]

@@edwardgaines6561 humans can, they just choose not to.

[@DanyEllilon94]

es linda... pero si. es cruel

[@cameronwiley9412]

I just learned tonight that woodpeckers eat baby birds.

[@syedraafeuddinahmed6275]

i never knew that wood pecker is a predator and carry out such attacks. Thanks for uploading this new knowledge for me.

[@MusicSetAdrift]

All birds are predators

[@CsnlGuy_Da_Goadt]

@@MusicSetAdrift even the colibri bird?

[@viktorrietveld]

Thats why bluetits need a smaller nest opening, and a metal ring around the opening

[@annehenry6243]

Once watched several squirrels mess with a blue jay nest...they were after the eggs. Jays were squawking all kinds of noise, tried running off the squirrels. Then they left and I thought they had given up. Within a minute, they came back with 3 big crows. I watched those 2 jays sit on the fence while those crows swooshed up into that tree. Leaves and branches everywhere, 3 squirrels come hauling ass out of the tree with those cawing crows right up their tails. Those crows tormented those squirrels for an hour, chasing them up and down trees, back and forth across the yards, facinating.

[@joyrider6456]

Hahaha so basicly they brought in reinforcement 😄😄??

[@omnivorous65]

I lived near Hampstead Heath and after a storm I found a magpie chick that had fallen out of her nest. I hand-raised and took it into the Heath to catch insect. I was spotted by a flock of crows and they attacked me The Birds' style. I first thought they would attack the magpie but nope, I was their target.

[@jf752]

the crows will raid the nest too. they were probably mad the squirrels got the eggs first

[@ernesto7506]

That’s why you make a metal case around the bird house with a wood interior

[@TimeBomb014X]

I wonder if that Woodpecker was just that hungry to eat the whole nest in an hour or it just killed to kill

[@kimp.dr.n2652]

You cant just eat one

[@user-sq6du6zf1l]

suker

[@Vision-lz4ru]

I’m gonna make sure I get bird houses that are as hard as steel from now on lol

[@TheDorianTube]

Bruh, that hole is way too big and looks like it was clumsily enlarged as well. All the video I get recommended from your channel are raids too. You made a buffet for clicks didn't you?

[@Svadilfare]

Mama bird at 2:00 "What the fuck happened to the door?"

[@ripleylok1447]

It was one of the most biggest bird familly.

[@johansenfamilyadventures3018]

Baby birds: food? Woodpecker: yes but for me

[@michaelpaget6288]

This is like a bird version of paranormal activity

[@2Syndras1Cup]

3:05 It fought but Woody be like "gtfo, I'm hungry!"

[@Gu3ssWhatsN3XT]

That is too funny

[@ASFALT21]

Nature is cruel, but the woodpecker wants to live as well.

[@thehavoccompany-a3]

Who cares if it wants to live? I'd kill it all the same after seeing what it just pulled off.

[@otnepxui]

When you make a nesting box for smaller birds - it's important to make a nice edging from sheet metal around the hole

[@iwannaseenow1]

I have a feeling they wanted the footage :(

[@otnepxui]

Might be, but most probably - it's disappointment that makes us feel mad and judgemental on a dude, who just made a nest box for tits without bad intentions

[@viktorbirkeland6520]

@@otnepxui yeah it's nobody's fault, idk why people get mad at it, shit happens. All kinds of animals eat baby birds, just look up horses and deer eating bird chicks, it's the exact same thing!

[@lucifermorningstarwishesyo2607]

@@viktorbirkeland6520 Nature can be changed, fortunately.

[@viktorbirkeland6520]

@@lucifermorningstarwishesyo2607 of course. That's why species are dying off somewhat faster than they normally would, since we are changing nature!

[@DanceySteveYNWA]

When KFC is doing a 2for1

[@exessex3522]

How do woodpeckers eat nestlings? Owl-style in one gulp or in pieces. Do they feed them to their own young?

[@terrance3218]

In one gulp

[@Bennyboy12]

The mum looks around thinking am I at the right nest? I’m sure our door was a little smaller?

[@ColumbiaB]

This shows that if you put up nest boxes for Eurasian Blue Tits or other smaller species in that area, you need to install metal plating to prevent predators from enlarging the entrance hole. It is certainly natural for woodpeckers to prey on nests. But boxes that attract birds to nest in them create an unnatural •situation• of vulnerability to such predation, because they are easier for predators to find than are natural nest cavities, and it’s easier for predators to enlarge the entrance of a box (compared to one in a tree trunk) to get to eggs or nestlings. So if you set up nest boxes, you should be conscientious about taking steps to mitigate the ways in which they may render the birds who use them unusually vulnerable to predation.

[@rebelslave2861]

yeah but they wont do that cause they will get less views

[@ColumbiaB]

@Reb Slav - No, I think the vast majority of people who install nest boxes, and even the vast majority of those who also place webcams in them, are not driven by a cynical thirst to get views at all costs. There are probably a few folks around who are governed by only the basest of motivations, but I see no reason to ascribe those to anyone without better evidence than a dyspeptic view of human nature.

[@rebelslave2861]

@@ColumbiaB i didnt say the vast majority. but there are certainly plenty of channels that do so, along with a huge monkey torture network that youtube has allowed on here for years to this day.. humans are baser and sadistic. they are not as complex as what you would like to believe.. .. but your young.. and also a woman, so you will learn very slowly... or never

[@letssuperfuntime]

@@ColumbiaB + like for teaching me a new word...dyspeptic. I like it.

[@views-jp3ku]

woodpeeker: Why should I take one if I can take all?

[@davidscott1052]

That's why when building a nest box ...ALWAYS put a metal ring around the hole ...will put a stop to this !!!

[@tacticallemon7518]

Anyone else find it ironic that the baby’s chirping is what gives them away

[@1985cactus]

I'm an idiot. I thought woodpeckers eat wood.

[@anderspersson7084]

Woodpecker: Thats a decent size bug that will do.

[@gamerboysp2559]

3:00 did it just kill one of the parents

[@USAngriffskrieg]

jip sadly

[@truenreal365]

You gotta help put metal around a small hole

[@vicious3526]

Vegans: We shouldn't hurt nature, nature is beautiful! Nature:

[@neo_devaney]

What a dumb fckn comment, lmao 😂!! So we should ,,hurt nature'' or what? Or behave like animals because animals do? Or what is it that you wanna say? Every one knows that animals eat animals, but that's not the point. It's about the billions and billions of animals being especially breeded to just slaughter or exploit them and in most cases let them suffer.

[@vicious3526]

@@neo_devaney shhh vegan

[@neo_devaney]

@@vicious3526 I'm not Vegan and i sometimes eat meat. Buying good meat at local farms to avoid the meat industry is not a hard thing to do where i live, otherwise i might have become a vegetarian. People can even understand, accept and support another lifestyle without directly following it. Because a different choice of food does not prevent an intelligent, reflective being from seeing someone else's point. And as such i see their points about health, i see the harm done by the food industry and avoid it when ever i can and fully respect Vegans for their choice, even if i do not want to go the same way entirely. Btw. that's also where mankind usually differes from animals: To be reflective and aware of things. Maybe you should appreciate the great gift of self reflection a bit more and try to not directly put people into the next fitting drawer.

[@vicious3526]

@@neo_devaney shhhh

[@vicious3526]

@@neo_devaney shhhh

[@PeterWu777]

well, no one is defending the worms. people kept inserting the idea the woodpecker is the villans in this scenario, but that's based on our moral standards. Woodpeckers got their offsprings to feed too, and high up the food chain eagle and hawks are going after them. Really, their best defense may be better nesting locations, hideouts, and nest frequency

[@Yaalimadad24434]

Thought woodpeckers feeds on insects and larvas ! There no difference to falcons and Craws. It’s the food chain after all , the creator is Great managing things.

[@armin6427]

4:51 lmao how the Woodpecker squeezes in and can barely get out

[@montagusappling3076]

Wow he actually made the entrance bigger.

[@tomwolak3362]

Damn I didnt know woodpeckers did that.Saw blue jays do that to a robins nest but never a woodpecker.

[@MusicSetAdrift]

XD Why wouldnt any larger bird eat a smaller one? Its shown in record that larger Denisovans cannibalized smaller humans.

[@uzum1961]

1:38 "Here's Johnny"

[@hag8752]

I didn't know woodpeckers ate other bird species I thought they were insectivores. Taught me something

[@Tank50us]

depends on the species of Woodpecker. Some smaller ones are more into bugs, but larger ones will eat smaller birds.

[@manishmandal-78]

7:30 pm and its bright daylight outside. Woodpecker hunting at night Chick keeps decreasing and increasing

[@rythemzlatin]

yeah , the number of chicks keeps varying.

[@cicciobaliccio]

a solid steel ring surrounding the hole...

[@MrEdrazo]

Does it devours all chickens for itself or it is just predating to feed its own babies? I'm asking because this attack is so fast... why doesn't the woodpecker just eat them all right in the nest, if it's bigger than both parents?

[@jagiNON]

@Devin McPherson Wood peckers feed on the brains of smaller birds. You can look it up, there are videos.

[@37Iulian]

A metal guard can keep away the predators! Buy or make yourself, but it's worth it! I use at least 4-5mm thick aluminum or 3mm stainless steel! And more deeper house: 1-2 inches deeper also helps! Better deeper than too shallow! God bless you for sharing!

[@rodent]

you can stop bullets with that!

[@pcelsus]

I am so shocked... so stunned... Bring them back, Woodpecker! Long ago I lost faith in humanity and now in you, Woodpecker....

[@wolfpackflt670]

This is why you put steel plates around the hole.

[@lukatesseract]

You could see the confusion on the mother's face when she came back with food and saw the house was wrecked.

[@lauralishes1]

Whoever made this box did a horrible job. If you're going to make a nest box you'd think you'd know about potential predators like this, and how to stop it from happening such as reinforcing the hole, making it smaller, and especially putting a metal guard a round the hole, it's just basic common sense.

[@KidScipio]

man i hate woodpeckers now

[@wolfpackflt670]

Wood peckers are general assholes. I had a big line of bird food I set right outside my window and a lot of birds came to feed, from crows to the smallest finch all at the same time, no issues......that's until a wood pecker shows up. There was no gaps between the other birds for the wood pecker to get some seeds so what did he/she do? Grab a finch and throw it out of the way, rather aggressively.

[@ledims6770]

Faut bien qu'il se nourris

[@defiantslash1211]

U and me one on one. Let's go outside f###ing woodpecker..

[@Heyim18bro]

I used to have a woodpecker that would peck at my window every morning just to piss me off, I would bang at the window and he would fly back to a tree and just look at me until I went away and then would start doing it again. If you get the chance to strangle a woodpecker don't hesitate to

[@stacyboudreau123]

@@wolfpackflt670 Animals do whatever they need to do for food. It is what it is. They gotta eat to survive like we do. Even if it costs an animal it's fucking life. Don't get fucking butt hurt over it.

[@johnqpublic1]

When I was younger, I used to think that animals that werr related wouldn't eat each other. For example, I thought that a lion would recognize a kitten and refrain from eating it. And that a big bird wouldn't eat a little species of bird. Boy was I wrong.

[@connoroleary591]

Nest boxes should have sheet metal around the opening to stop squirrels and other predators attacking the family. Don't provide nest boxes if you don't provide adequate protection.

[@Rokomarn]

Yes they should have sheet metal around the opening like a natural nest does

[@보라돌이ioi]

It is not recommended to install artificial bird nests that are less secure than wooden nests. For small birds, this poor human nest is no different from a trap.

[@Connibolognese]

I don't like the atmosphere of some of the comments here. There's nothing funny about predation. It's nature and predating animals are as worthy as all other beings, but i don't think there's a reason to joke about, people who may do that lack of empathy.

[@My_Name_IsKhan]

@4:19 when the chicks realised we are the food

[@carvinieri5217]

Remember to add metal shield around hole! Always! and with the correct size of the entrance! otherwise such a house is a free bar for a woodpecker..🍔🍔🍔🐤🐤🐤🐤🐦

[@nautilus2612]

Woodpeckers can just open a new hole in the nestbox. The only way to protect the nest is to hide it well.

[@carvinieri5217]

@@nautilus2612 he seems to widen the existing entrance.

[@Galivantin]

That is hard to watch. I can see that the Mom Honeywell knew something was not right when she came back and she didn't see the nest the same way she left it, after the second feeding she doesn't go back to the nest. It is really a harsh reality. :-(

[@lucianarivarola9015]

damn nature is ruthless I'm so sad now

[@crazydudetz]

Does the woodpecker eat the chicks? Or just throw them out of the nest to die?

[@turdburgalar6111]

People be like "evil cats killing all those poor birdies" Birds kill birds Squirrels kill birds Dogs kill birds Fish kill birds Snakes kill birds Tarantulas kill birds People kill birds

[@RubyCarrots3232]

Cats kill too many birds that's the problem, more birds are dying a year due to cats than any other factor including disease, other predators, windows, vehicles, poaching, parasites, natural causes, and pollution causing the extinction of dozens of species and the endangerment of hundreds more.

[@CARBIDE76]

Birds evolved from Dinosaurs

[@stefanms8803]

Yes. That bird-on-bird crime should be addressed first

[@mohammedjama9245]

@@stefanms8803 Bird life matter 😂😂😂

[@Stevesmith-yw7cr]

@@CARBIDE76 Nope. Evolution is a lie....Jeffrey Dahmer blamed evolution for his idea that after this...nothing. He changed his mind and asked GOD to forgive him before he died.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/terror-of-existence-cannibal-jeffrey-dahmer-loved-then-loathed-darwinism/

[@alan30189]

Damn woodpecker! Gotta put a steel plate on the outside of that box, to prevent the woodpecker from pecking the hole larger and getting his lardass through the hole.

[@ArbitraryExploration]

This is incredibly cool! I love watching the birds! :)