Friday, June 25, 2010

Juvenile Woodies.






















More young Great Spotted Woodpeckers have been to visit the various feeders in the garden area.  Although they are almost the same size as adults they are very obvious by their prominent red crown sitting on top of their heads rather like a hat. Just before taking this photo it landed on a rather thin branch nearby but was unable to grip it tightly so it dangled rather ungainly upside down for a while before managing somehow to grasp onto the suet ball. The juvenile and female do not have the prominent red mark on the nape of the neck which is so obvious on the adult male in the photos below. Both male and female do have red markings on the abdomen and undertail.The female is rather elusive and we have only seen her once so maybe she is looked after by the family after all her hard work.

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