I also have GS Woodpeckers chasing each other around the dead tree, a male Blackcap has also visited too, and two abnormalities in the form of a Blue Tit with an elongated/twisted beak, and a Woodpigeon with a large growth on its lower beak.
The Treecreeper has been spotted several more times, as have those Goldcrests too.
Sparrowhawk.
I think these GS Woodpeckers are both males? one is clearly a male, the other does show a small path of red to the rear of its head/neck area.
Poor qaulity shot of the Blackcap, I also saw 2 more males in a neigbours tree, a few days before this one came to my garden.
Blue Tit with abnormal Beak(terrible light!)
Woodpigeon with large growth.
Long distance shot of one of the Goldcrests.








I had both Sparrowhawk and GS Woodpecker in my garden this week Paul, unfortuately the former was carrying the latter off squealing :-(
ReplyDeleteIt did drop it eventually and the woody flew off !
Hi Warren, I know its easy for us to feel kind of sorry for the poor birds who end up as a meal for a bird of prey, but that is the nature of the beast.
ReplyDeleteIve followed your Hadlow Sparrowhawk blog stories with interest, and I photographed my 1st male Sparrowhawk in Hadlow(Carpenters Lane)just before this past Christmas.