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Title: Totally gobsmacked!!
Post by: tim on July 19, 2011, 20:50:39
VERY rarely see a Green Woodpecker but 8 pm  tonight, on our lawn - Mum feeding her young with (?) leatherjackets.

Just missed the feeding bit.

This through a not very clean kitchen window 60 feet away"!!
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Post by: pigeonseed on July 19, 2011, 21:01:06
Gorgeous!
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Post by: Unwashed on July 19, 2011, 21:10:23
Yaffles are beautiful aren't they - ants are a favourite in grass.
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Post by: saddad on July 20, 2011, 07:18:28
Beautiful... I've only seen them up trees in the distance using binoculars...  :(
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Post by: Digeroo on July 20, 2011, 07:29:51
I saw one on the ground just in front of my car last week was gutted just camera was in the back and I could not get it without disturbing the bird.  Very beautiful.

Well done Tim for getting the pic.
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Post by: 1066 on July 20, 2011, 07:40:11
lovely  :)
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Post by: grannyjanny on July 20, 2011, 07:50:51
Lovely Tim ;D.
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Post by: Flighty on July 20, 2011, 07:57:28
Lucky you I often hear, but rarely see, them!
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Post by: shirlton on July 20, 2011, 08:01:19
I have only ever seen one and that was in Sutton Park
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Post by: Unwashed on July 20, 2011, 22:17:45
Quote from: saddad on July 20, 2011, 07:18:28
Beautiful... I've only seen them up trees in the distance using binoculars...  :(
I didn't know they could use binoculars. ;)
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Post by: antipodes on July 21, 2011, 09:24:59
Lovely! there are quite a few around where I live and I have seen them on several occasions, flying from tree to tree. They are gorgeous.
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Post by: Robert_Brenchley on July 22, 2011, 21:10:59
We get the odd one on the allotments; they're easier to see than the Greater Spotted, which doesn't leave the bigger trees. Yaffles are a scrubland bird. I worry a bit as they can become a pest of beehives once they learn that there's an easy series of meals inside.