Tapping Great Spotted Woodpecker Caught on Trailcam

A male of Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major, family Picidae) tapping the bark of a dead branch with his beak to probe inside as he climbed up a giant dogwood (aka wedding cake tree; Cornus controversa, family Cornaceae) around the vacant sett of Japanese badger (Meles anakuma, family Mustelidae). When he found no prey inside the dead tree, the woodpecker flew away. Two weeks later, the Great Spotted Woodpecker was spotted again, flying off from a leafless shrub. Captured from two angles with my old and new trailcams in the morning afternoon (around APM) of late-September and early-October 2023 in Japan.
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