Greater Spotted Woodpecker

When we first put up our bird feeder, we used basic bird seed. This was totally ignored by the birds, and the fat balls were not much better. Once we changed to sunflower seeds, we started to get a lot more visitors.

The latest change has been to sunflower hearts, and these have been very successful. We started off with blue tits, great tits and coal tits, then the finches arrived, chaffinches, greenfinches and recently goldfinches. But in the last two weeks, who should turn up but a greater spotted woodpecker. He must be feeding some young, as he now comes a couple of times every day. And a beautiful sight he is too.