This colourful Green Woodpecker is a regular visitor to our garden, where she and members of her family feed on ants living in our lawn - their favourite feeding ground is short grass where they can use their long, strong beaks to dig into the ant colonies. You can tell this one is female because male Green Woodpeckers have a red patch inside their black "moustache". Green Woodpeckers are the largest and most colourful of our native British woodpeckers. Their flight is undulating, and their call sounds like someone laughing - very loudly :)
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Beautiful shots :)
Great pictures and interesting colors! Thanks for stopping by KreativeKaring and leaving a comment. I just fixed the linky list if you wanted to go link up also. I hope you have a great day!
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What a pretty bird! And great shots of it...have not seen one of these!
Wow, how do you know so much about these little guys. Neat pic. Does this little woodpecker show up often since you have the type of grass they like to feed in?
Awesome photos ~ in USA ~ rarely seen our woodpeckers on the ground ~ thanks, namaste, ^_^ linked with In Him
Oh wow!! How beautiful! I've never seen a green woodpecker. Great WW picture :)
Brandi
www.yeewittlethings.blogspot.ca
WOW... for some reason I thought their' beaks were longer than that!
Great picture
Holy cow. That is such a beautiful bird! I can't believe you got such awesome pictures!
Nice, wish they would sit still for me that long! Happy WW Erika.
Beautiful!
Beautiful pictures! I've never seen a woodpecker that close up before
We have a woodpecker who pecks at out house at this time of year. Keep thinking someone's knocking on the door lol.
Paula
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Oh she's beautiful, I've never seen nor heard of a green woodpecker, amazing! I took a picture of a red headed woodpecker the other day for the first time!
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This is the first one I've ever seen. Very pretty bird. Thanks for linking up again. Have a great Easter!
Great photos! Thanks for sharing!
Happy WW from Jordyn @ The Green House!
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Neat photos! I don't think that I've ever actually seen a woodpecker
I've never seen a green woodpecker before! Beautiful colors, thanks for sharing the photo!
She's beautiful...could use a few of these where I live as we always have many ants visiting in the summer months!
Monica, Older Mommy Still Yummy
What a beautiful bird. The colors are very interesting. We had a woodpecker that lived in the woods by our old house, though we never saw it. It sure did have a great time waking us up early though :)
That is a beautiful woodpecker. I just checked my Bird Book, and that is not one that I can get around my house. Thanks for sharing him.
Danielle
What a gorgeous bird!
Great pics! Thanks for linking up with The BOAT!
Very neat pictures!!! Have never seen a bird quite like this before!
We see many types of woodpeckers around our house and while hiking but I have never seen this one. Hard to tell from the photos, but it looks quite big?
That photo on my WW was actually a scan of a photo I took at least 30 years ago. Those old Kodachrome slides have really held up well over the years. Digital has its advantages, but I will forever miss the quality and control I had using my old Nikons and Kodachrome.
Yes, they are quite big and heavy birds - a similar size to a pigeon or a small crow. And it's funny, isn't it Will - despite all the advantages of digital, the quality and control you could get with slides remain unsurpassed :)
Ours do too, Theresa! One like to sit under the oak tree by our bedroom window, soon after dawn, and sometimes I could cheerfully throttle him and his raucous laugh!
Hi Regan - they're quite shy birds, so you need to be lucky - and quick to see them!
Thanks Dave - wishing you a great Easter too!
Hi Lori, your red-headed woodpecker is beautiful! We only get 3 types here in the UK, the green one above, and the greater and lesser spotted woodpeckers which are essentially black and white with a little bit of red on them. Thanks for linking up with Erika's Wordless Wednesday :)
Oh Paula, that's so funny! A spotted woodpecker sometimes pecks on our bedroom windowsill and that too sounds like someone knocking at the door!
Thanks David - it's very unusual for me to catch one, by the time I've picked up the camera they've usually disappeared! Happy WW :)
Hi Kris! Yes, we see them often - they only eat ants so we must have zillions of ants in our grass, LOL!
It's beautiful! You took some incredible photos! Happy WW!
Aw, thank you Stacey!
Oh she is beautiful! thanks for sharing. she is so different than the ones I see here in WI, USA. I only see mine through the window peeking on the trees & suet I put out for them. none are ground feeders that I know of & never green. she can gobble up my ants anytime :o) Faythe @ GMT~
That is so cool! I've only ever seen a woodpecker high in the trees.
What a lovely bird. Thanks for sharing these photographs; It's been a pleasure learning about this visitor to your garden!
LOL, Faythe - they love ants and I'd send some over for you if I could! Have a great week :)
Thanks for dropping by and commenting!
Oh wow, I've never seen one of those before!
Beautiful!
Thanks for linking up!
Beautiful bird! Love the different feathers.
checking your etsy site now. I am into stamped jewelry...do you make them>
Hi Amanda! yes, I do make stamped jewelry - just email me if there is anything in particular you are looking for :)
Simply gorgeous, that bird. Happy to have hopped into your blog from the other Wordless Wednesday on "Create With Joy".
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