Nuthatch Sitta europaea
Digiscoped with Canon Powershot A640 and Leica APO77 x32
Treecreeper Certhia familiaris, showing long hind toe
Digiscoped with Canon Powershot A640 and Leica APO77 x20
Wood Anemone Anemone nemorosa
Canon Powershot A640
Friday, March 07, 2008
Old Sulehay Nuthatch
Spent a very pleasant hour in the Yarwell Quarter of Old Sulehay Forest at lunchtime. No Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers but at least four Nuthatches plus other woodland birds including a noisy group of choral Redwings.
Nuthatch Sitta europaea
Digiscoped with Canon Powershot A640 and Leica APO77 x32
Treecreeper Certhia familiaris, showing long hind toe
Digiscoped with Canon Powershot A640 and Leica APO77 x20
Wood Anemone Anemone nemorosa
Canon Powershot A640
Nuthatch Sitta europaea
Digiscoped with Canon Powershot A640 and Leica APO77 x32
Treecreeper Certhia familiaris, showing long hind toe
Digiscoped with Canon Powershot A640 and Leica APO77 x20
Wood Anemone Anemone nemorosa
Canon Powershot A640
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Hi. Found your blog today while I was looking for pictures of Polypore fungi! Love you diary/pictures and have now stuck you on my Google Reader list. Jane
I have a question. What makes Lesser Spotted Woodpecker so rare over there ?
They aren't so much rare as elusive. Even in this small block of old woodland there are probably 2 pairs - I had one calling here two days after I posted this entry. But they are very thinly distributed and are shy and silent for most of the year just drumming and calling more in March and April. Sometimes birds visit feeders in the winter in some places.
They are scarce because there is not that much old deciduous woodland with dead standing wood and what exists is rather fragmented.
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