Picture Post 3 – is there anybody who doesn’t love the woodpecker

Picture post 3 – is there anybody who doesn’t love the woodpecker? I have posted before about the great spotted woodpecker and I wont repeat myself in this post.

This post is really just a ‘picture post’ that I hope to update as and when I (hopefully) spot more woodpeckers.

Check out a few quick facts below.

Four quick facts

Before you check the pictures out here’s a few woodpeckers facts:

– both the male and female woodpecker help to incubate the (white) eggs, these eggs take about 12 days or so to hatch;

– woodpeckers have been know to drum on other things than just trees – including metal poles and weather vanes;

– numbers have increased in the UK in the last 25 to 30 years;

– a male without a mate can drum as many as 600 times a day – about three times as many ‘drums’ as a male without a mate

Links to previous posts

I have posted a couple of woodpecker blog posts on previous occasions. If you want to find read them you can see them at the following links: The great spotted woodpecker and Spotting the great spotted woodpecker.