Winter eagle camera guest - great spotted woodpecker
Photo: Arne Ader
Translation: Liis
Great spotted woodpecker.
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Great spotted woodpecker
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Suur – kirjurähn
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In camera view mostly well-known actors show up, and the great spotted woodpecker is the best known of the woodpeckers in Estonia.
The male bird's colourful sign is the red patch on the neck (see Arne’s photo where the mark shows). Black top of head, white spots on the shoulders, red feathers on the underside of the tail for both male and female birds - a rather bright getup in nature at the moment.
In autumn and winter it feeds mostly on conifer seeds. “Smithies” can be bark cracks, tree stumps, forked branches, and they can be in deciduous trees or conifers or dead trees. The cone is wedged in with the top upwards, and is at first picked clean of seeds on one side, then turned and finished off on the other side. The worked cones on the ground under the smithies look ragged, only the bottom part of the cone is left untouched. The “handwriting” of the great woodpecker differs clearly from cones gnawed by mice.
See the woodpecker working on a cone - LINK
An estimate of their number in winter may be up to three hundred thousand individuals. The great spotted woodpeckers are doing well, their number is growing
The male bird's colourful sign is the red patch on the neck (see Arne’s photo where the mark shows). Black top of head, white spots on the shoulders, red feathers on the underside of the tail for both male and female birds - a rather bright getup in nature at the moment.
In autumn and winter it feeds mostly on conifer seeds. “Smithies” can be bark cracks, tree stumps, forked branches, and they can be in deciduous trees or conifers or dead trees. The cone is wedged in with the top upwards, and is at first picked clean of seeds on one side, then turned and finished off on the other side. The worked cones on the ground under the smithies look ragged, only the bottom part of the cone is left untouched. The “handwriting” of the great woodpecker differs clearly from cones gnawed by mice.
See the woodpecker working on a cone - LINK
An estimate of their number in winter may be up to three hundred thousand individuals. The great spotted woodpeckers are doing well, their number is growing
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