Bird Watching: Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 by Resin

Resin wrote:
Hi Wallaby,

I'm going on the basis of the BTO Atlas, which is (dare I say it!) a huge lot more detailed and authoritative :-) . . . here's a snapshot of their map, hope they won't mind a small breach of their copyright. Maybe if I plug the book, they'll forgive it: D. W. Gibbons et al., The New Atlas of Breeding Birds in Britain and Ireland; ISBN 0-85661-075-5 - an excellent book, well worth getting.

Much the same as up here (Northumbs), in Lincs they are very patchily distributed and at low density, you have to go to exactly the right places to find them (for which read, to the few areas which meet their very strict habitat requirements); even a short distance from where they breed, they can be extremely scarce, if the habitat doesn't suit them.

Resin