Bird Watching: Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 by kennedyh

kennedyh wrote:
I love the woodpeckers, but unfortunately there are none in Australia.
Way back in 1968, in England, I found a branch on which a Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, liked to drum.
I got permission of the land owner to put a hide in the tree and made a device for imitating the drumming of the woodpecker.
I sat in the hide and drummed, and I did get one brief visit from the Lesser Spotted, but only managed one not very good picture. It seems however that my drumming was more like the frequency of the Greater Spotted, because a lovely male Greater Spotted arrived and every time I drummed, he drummed too. He spent a long time in the tree only a few feet from me and I was able to get some pictures. Here is one of the best ones: