Bird Watching: Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
That must have been fun with the Woodpecker next to you Ken! The poor bird probably thought it had a mate!

The Lesser Spotted I have read makes a softer drumming sound. I heard a softer one last year in the Horse Chestnut and I was convinced it was a different bird, then I saw it flying down my road low down but I don't know which it was. Perhaps that tree makes a different noise, but this year it doesn't sound soft.

I'm sure I saw a Green Woodpecker one morning on the tit box, I jumped out of bed and only got a glimpse through bleary eyes before it flew but the back looked brownish green. The next day it was in the Chestnut tree, I saw it fly to the neighbours oaks and the wings looked brownish with (I think) black and white bars lengthways.

I took a pic of it on zoom, but it was very dull, it does look to be the shape of a Green Woodpecker. Perhaps someone can recognise it from the pic?