On my bird feeder today:
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Greater or Lesser Spotted??
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help!
That is a Greater Spotted Woodpecker. Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers have a very distinctive red cap on their heads, this one is just black. Here is a comparison for you:
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
Greater Spotted Woodpecker
Thanks Jamie. I love how quick this forum is!
Thats OK. I have just got back home and I wanted to see the threads, and your one was on the top of the 'recent posts' list, so I just had to look
Even without the colouring, the difference between lesser and greater is fairly simple - the lesser is very small, about the size of a sparrow, while the greater is much larger, nearly (but not quite) the size of a blackbird.
Nice picture, Jamie.
Nice picture, Jamie.
Oh, sorry! I didn't take it, I got it from Google. My photo's aren't as good as yours you know!
I have never seen a Greater/Lesser Spotted Woodpecker before, I have only heard the Greater Spotted Woodpecker drumming on the trees.
I had no idea the lesser was so tiny. I thought the spots were smaller...
Neither did I to be honest.
Cracking photo of the Lesser Pecker. Jamie, can you put a note under photos you use from other people stating who took it. Then no-one gets into any copyright trouble. This thread woul have also fit well into the Bird Identification Q&A thread i started?
Nearly! Flickr.com is just the website. The photo will have been taken by someone for that site. Its the individual photographer you need to acknowledge not the website. Dont worry about this one too much now, just for future reference