Thursday 28 June 2018

Great Spotted Woodpecker

More usually any Great Spotted Woodpeckers in the garden are making use of the peanuts in the feeders so it was lovely to capture a male GSW taking a drink for the bird bath.  The second photograph shows how readily the bird uses its tail to provide stability while it is tipping water down its throat.



I was demonstrating to a friend how many shots per second the Canon 7D can take and captured this Grey Squirrel taking the casing off a peanut - put out for birds, you understand.


1 comment:

brianhuman said...

Interesting behavioural shots of the woodpecker. We haven't had a Great Spotted in the garden for over a year, but yesterday I did see one at the top of a leylandii a few gardens away - something to add to the list for this year.