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.