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Great spotted woodpecker is at his forge with a spruce cone. Without letting himself be disturbed by the noise around he only concentrates on the hammering. How the woodpecker lets its long tongue pick out the seeds from between the scales of the cone is not easy to see in this quick action. But we can see how he turns the cone when half of it has been emptied of seeds. A woodpecker-worked cone is easy to recognise from its roughed-up look.