Things you need to know about GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKERS!

[@jungseontv]

Good video my friend Have a happy weekend

[@AShotOfWildlife]

Thank you!

[@1st_track_dents]

Well done Liam, another well crafted educational video that was very interesting to watch, looking forward to the next one 😉

[@AShotOfWildlife]

Thank you. I'm glad you found it educational and interesting and hope you've enjoyed the latest ones I've uploaded as well 😀

[@markvincent5241]

Have a male who occasionally visits my garden but only for the redskin peanut's in the feeders. Leaves the other stuff. Lovely to see.

[@joeyk725]

Very interesting, thanks very much. I love these short videos, so informative. Love your channel 🙏🐦🥰

[@touchedbynature5445]

Brilliant Video, Many thanks for sharing.

[@AShotOfWildlife]

Cheers!

[@auroraborealis2442]

Great video, thank you.

[@richardgreendev]

I've got a male woodpecker in the trees behind me, on Southwick Hill, down here in West Sussex, England! Fantastic to see him, I've never seen or heard one in my life before

[@DailyMyChildhood]

That was cool A very lovely upload ....❤

[@debbiebartlett6526]

Great video thanks,watching some in the woodland behind my house,beautiful birds.

[@fenlandwildlifeclips]

Fantastic little video.

[@AShotOfWildlife]

Thank you!

[@fenlandwildlifeclips]

@@AShotOfWildlife Just a quick question: why might a magpie start attacking people in their gardens?

[@PapunBhattacharya]

Beautiful video. Thank you for sharing.

[@AShotOfWildlife]

Thanks!

[@clivemitchell4316]

Another top informative video Liam!

[@AShotOfWildlife]

Thank you!

[@Bertil_Lundin]

Thanks Liam for the Woodpecker film! Woodpeckers being one of my favourite birds always nice to watch. Have a good week! // Bertil.

[@philipfurnell7047]

Great video, thanks. These woodpeckers have just moved into the area I live in, Tipperary in Ireland, so they are spreading

[@JohnMurphyB]

It’s amazing to think that there were none of them breeding on the island of Ireland just 15 years ago.

[@danielitua4514]

Lovely Great job

[@jpronan8757]

I see these quite often in Cliff Castle Park at Keighley you should visit one day Liam and thanks for the video mate.

[@patricksmith4424]

Another excellent vid from this channel. Although I live in inner London, I have just been watching one of these beautiful birds on a tree on my avenue. I first heard the bark dropping on the street. I had never heard that sort of sound before. On looking out I saw a woodpecker really going at the tree. It's only in real life that you see how powerful those beaks are. They are like a machine, and you don't expect living creatures to act like that. There have been huge efforts within the conservation movement to preserve the habit for birds like the woodpeckers, and like today I think that is baring fruit.

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

I am an American birder and love to hear about birds around the world!!

[@dazbification]

Pervert

[@jonpendleton1007]

Another brilliant video Liam. Clear and concise 👌

[@AShotOfWildlife]

Cheers!

[@ttxela]

Definitely some facts there I wasn't previously aware of. Thanks for a great video 👍

[@AShotOfWildlife]

Thanks. I love that I learn something new every time I make one of these videos so I’m glad you have too.

[@aidanharrison3888]

Spotted ( geddit ) two on my neihbours feeder . SW Scotland . Beautiful birds .

[@hannah9293]

Thanks for the information! We have two woodpeckers nesting (I belive) in some trees adjacent to our garden. The past couple of days they've been feeding on our feeders and on our tree. It's so exciting! 🐦🐦

[@hawnyfox3411]

Hi Hannah, I've got the exact same thing - Mum's been feeding the 'baby' Boy. He's lost his "down" feathers real-quickly & is now noticably bigger than Mum. At one point I had THREE here at the exact same moment/week (they come here multiple times a day) Lastly, I've even photographed Mum feeding her Son on at least 20-25 different occasions** **(over the last 3-4 weeks) They arrive at 05.20ish & final feed is around 6.00pm-6.35pm I've even made 15-20 mile trips, just to buy them some fresh RSPB-Suet-Blocks (Suet-Cakes)

[@firstman9273]

I have a male visiting next door's bird feeder, came here to find out all about them. Thanks

[@Daniel-S1]

Thanks

[@janinymanwildlife4563]

You have great videos 👍lots of information 👍new subscriber😃

[@AShotOfWildlife]

Thank you! I’ve got a few videos lined up so hopefully you’ll enjoy them too!

[@SkylarkFields]

Another great video, Liam!

[@jonkirkham7961]

Saw one today . First time Westport lake SOT

[@prestons3400]

Great video

[@AShotOfWildlife]

Thanks Preston!

[@Leningrad_Underground]

Hi Liam. I remembered seeing this posting a year ago. Revisited to check feeding habbits . I have just chased a male away from breaking into a blue tit nest in my shed wall next to the feeder. I was impressed at the damage he had acomplished in so short a time. The Woodpeckerss have been ocassional visitors at the Feeder in the last 10 years and have had the tits nesting in the shed cavity wall for decades. I will put up some tin plate to protect the hole in future (This afternoon) . Much as I admire the Woodpeckers, I feel I should protect the resident tits.

[@TomMcClean]

Still waiting to see one here, Liam. I have heard them but that's it. They are elusive. Good video as usual. Best wishes from the Belfast Castlereagh hills of Northern Ireland

[@elizabethrhvb-b6162]

Absolutely brilliant, I really enjoy your videos, thankyou!

[@AShotOfWildlife]

Thanks Roberta, I’m glad you enjoy them!

[@NaturallyCuriousUK]

Excellent. Your intros are just getting better and better! Lots of great facts as usual 🙂👍👍👍

[@HelenaMikas]

You have and so much better than banging a stone . Great filming ..Woodpeckers are not easy to get clear clips of ,so for information , filming and a great presentation👍.Thanks and enjoy the weekend ,Can't wait for the next.

[@AShotOfWildlife]

Thanks Helena. The next one will be out next weekend (I’m trying to make them more consistently at the moment). I’m not sure which species to do, the Canada goose or perhaps the blackbird- I already have done a blackbird video but it was years ago and the quality and style is quite different to the current fact files I’ve been making.

[@HelenaMikas]

@@AShotOfWildlife Oh I'm doing a book on canada geese.Normally I go to the city I was born in .Hundreds live there on rivers and the canals.Terrific birds and so social .Superb parents but missed my annual visit to them this year due to travel restriction..Berlin has a few, Dusseldorf has many but no where beats my home city .. Look forward so much : I've many videos on them and believe me they are special birds.Have a great weekend Liam Thanks for the info :)🤗👍

[@stephenstaples1085]

Hey Liam nice vid Whish I lived in Norfolk I looks like it has soooooo much wildlife Hope you make more of these

[@nataliazielonka9824]

Fab video, thanks Liam! I’m surprised how short their incubation period is. Also love your intro and the pun at the end 😆

[@randolfjones1024]

Excellent as usual

[@nigelsw55]

Have seen a pair in my garden in Norfolk recently.

[@hawnyfox3411]

I've had THREE (at same time), in our part of Norfolk (wooded), on our Balcony & Suet-Feeder Even taken pix (photographs), of Mum regularly feeding her new Son & he's now bigger than her ! Measurement (distance) is just one yard (36in) from our bedroom window, roughly arm's-length He (Son), now visits about 15-16 times a day & makes for fabulous viewing** ** He usually stays here, feeding, for around 12-mins at a time & doesn't rush, unless disturbed (Fat Pidgeons)

[@nigelsw55]

@@hawnyfox3411 You lucky person. I have only seen the pair I saw once. Did manage to take a phone pic of one of them though.

[@jacobrheams]

great video! loved the intro😂 I do love these woodpeckers but haven't yet featured them on my channel

[@AdiHughesGuitar]

This is really well done - Taught me a bit too!

[@AShotOfWildlife]

Great. Thank you.

[@LaughingGravy.01]

I love your little info docs. I think you should include the latin name given Utube is international. A Green Woodpecker is known as a Gröngörling here is Sweden, for example. Thanks Laim!

[@awfelia]

Thanx alot! 😀 A Great Spotted Woodpecker just discovere that Id put coconut fat inside the birdhouse that i keep for small birds like the Great and Blue Tit and even sparrows and finches. Now it comes every day to scoff up fat and even flies off with a chunk in its beak! Ive lived here for 36 years and this is the first time Ive seen one so close up and it enters and exits the cage threw the mesh. If there are jackdaws or magpies in the area it hangs around until they leave! Sad it's partial to small birds n eggs tho 😞

[@darrellolsen1204]

Great video, I'm doing abit of research, I'm going to make a woodpecker out of cutlery 😁👍

[@AShotOfWildlife]

A woodpecker out of cutlery? Tell me more.

[@ChristopherHarle41048]

Great photography, and video laden with fascinating facts. We have these every day in our garden, but the sounds they make have been the sharp call, and then pecking at the bark. Today I both saw and heard a bird with these colours drilling. I'm unsure, was it a great or a lesser? Thanks for taking us closer to nature.

[@theavootar]

How do i identify woodpecker feeding holes?

[@AShotOfWildlife]

It’s a bit tricky to be sure it’s a woodpecker feeding hole but they’re usually 1-2cm wide and quite deep.

[@theavootar]

How DO they know whats in the bark when they can't see through it??? When they feed its looks like they're not picking up anything, apart from using the tongue to feed!

[@AShotOfWildlife]

That’s a good question. I don’t really know the answer but will have a look and try to find out.

[@theavootar]

@@AShotOfWildlife but most of what theyll find in crevices in my case is endless slugs and woodlice instead of grubs what i know they could be inside the wood.

[@jetblack5115]

I have one that visits my bird feeder in saltburn

[@AShotOfWildlife]

Brilliant, must be great to get a regular close view!

[@entropy444]

i wonder now with the ash dieback aswell if we will see a further increase in the numbers.

[@AShotOfWildlife]

Possibly mate, although around here they take down any trees that have ash dieback so they probably wouldn’t provide any new food or nesting sites.

[@wilhelmsarasalo3546]

Woodpecker fact:: At my friend's cabin , Pine Cove, just above Idyllwild you would normally hear woodpeckers all over the valley. Then not, but I saw woodpeckers picking up insects from the air, mostly termites. Seen seagulls in Finland doing the same, not termites, though, carpenter ants perhaps.

[@WelshSheep86]

Never seen these before but i recently moved house and there is a pair of them that visits a bird feeder attached to my livingroom window every morning and evening.

[@micamans]

I just heard a strange noise nextdoor. Looked over the fence to see a woodpecker pecking the hell out of a dead one lying by the back door. Is this normal?

[@ninoteskera]

"Taps on a tree like this" 😂

[@fp424932]

We have to shut some curtains in our house in the month of June to stop the chicks flying into our windows and killing themselves. Happened twice last year

[@brunoalves-pg9eo]

Any tips on how to find them or attract them? I hear them all the time when I go to a woodland spot near my home but oonly saw one once and very briefly. I'm trying to photograph one for my records.

[@alexandrerrobinson6720]

Fortunately a male has not long started to feed in our garden in Sunderland. I've never seen a woodpecker in my life until now.😊

[@green00eyes]

I wish I didn't know that about them eating the chicks of other birds. I won't look at a great spotted the same again!

[@tomfennings8384]

I see one in noak hill romford

[@mooncatandberyl5372]

when I put food out for birds in apple tree n on bird table in garden I always knock a few times on table, to let birds know ive put food out, i usually dont hang about to watch birds eating, but this morning I did n I saw great spotted woodpecker hammering away in apple tree. ive only one tree in my garden, but garden behind has evergreens. I see lots of corvids frequently in my garden.

[@blueberrymuffin8052]

Awww it's a shame that the woodpeckers did not come after the rock trick! Never mind though, I've had plenty Woodpecker facts drilled into me haha :)

[@alanhill5337]

👍

[@kuuttinen]

This comes to show that just like humans birds are individuals as well. We had a Woodpecker couple that visited our feeding spot daily, as they had a baby WP and it grew into a "teenage"Woodpecker they'd bring him to the feeding spot and both parents would feed him. The funny part is that they'd do this for quite a long time, their "baby"was almost a grown up WP but he'd sit there right beside the food with his mouth open and make noises and they'd eventually give up and feed him😂 What a lazy baby. Eventually I think he realized that it's easier and faster to just eat by himself but it took a while for sure.

[@kimcroce1393]

Thats so cute.

[@kuuttinen]

@@kimcroce1393 Woodpeckers are cute, and quite hilarious to watch.

[@BorisKOUKA]

They do have a dark side : eating babies birds and feeding them to their babies. That's why if you build a bird house, you need to made a really small hole and reinforce the front with iron.

[@ramblingrob4693]

I love these videos I just done 8,

[@ForestHealth]

This woodpecker killed baby tit, Parus major... Still hurts.. I live in northern Sweden, in forest. In a tree by the house we have tit house with babies, Turdus guys made nest, and another small black-white bird that sings beautifully. And woodpecker couple been coming often (we call them as Woody the female and Pecker the male). There `s feeder close to the tree and in winter/ spring we had fat on the tree. I should have done something when i saw that Pecker is viciously chasing other birds away, different birds came to eat here. Once i saw Pecker or Woody, not sure, pecking on another bird house a bit further from the house. So last evening, it`s summer now, plenty of food in nature, I saw Pecker killing a baby tit, just pecking and pecking, so cruel and merciless... Then he was on top of tit house, i chased him away. Cried and begged apology to the parent tit whom i saw soon afterwards. I cannot sit by the tree and guard it all the time. Turdus birds are protecting their nest at least. Any ideas how to deal with this mess? How to let the woodpeckers know that they are Not welcome anymore? And why the hell kill baby bird??

[@AmyWinehouse9and14.]

Everything there is to know he said but didn't explain why they don't get headaches.

[@alonteach]

Loved your Great video Thank you for sharing That's an immediate subscribe! It seams that the spotted woodpecker is very close to the Syrian woodpeckers we have here in Israel. Thank to you, I have noticed that each of the two parents I have filmed at this video, were actually feeding different offspring. Thank you, keep on the great work 🏆 kzbin.info/www/bejne/ipTZiayJedSIqtk

[@FirstNameLastName-hahaha]

here's a thought .. less estuary english and more woodpecker drumming

[@AShotOfWildlife]

What is estuary English? Lol