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24-06-2009, 10:29 PM
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| | | Re: Great Spotted Woodpecker
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Originally Posted by Billy Wobble Dagger  We have a GSW in our garden to. He also visits first thing in the morning and then again about 8 in the evening. He came regularly for about three weeks and then vanished. I'm glad to say he reappeared last night at 8pm after 2 weeks of being away. Just hoping he'll stick around.
BWD | It must be the same one - ours has been gone for a while now, probably visiting you 
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25-06-2009, 12:27 AM
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| | | Re: Great Spotted Woodpecker
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Originally Posted by KateW Great excitement this evening as we realised that the bird we were watching on the nuts on our bird table was a woodpecker. A male Great Spotted. That's a first for us!!  | Lucky you KateW , I`m really jealous, G.S.W.s are rare vagrants here in Ireland.
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25-06-2009, 04:40 PM
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| | | Re: Great Spotted Woodpecker
Great news, they haven't been to our garden since christmas day 2007 |
27-06-2009, 11:03 AM
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| | | Re: Great Spotted Woodpecker
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Originally Posted by Pete Collins ....
We have a male and a female visiting regularly at the moment (always separately), so hopefully we might get to see a juvenile soon as we did last year. | A juvenile turned up this morning and was happily tucking into the peanuts in one of our feeders! |
28-06-2009, 08:33 PM
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| | | Re: Great Spotted Woodpecker
That's good news! We had a female feeding on the nuts this morning at 6.30 (Sunday morning - lucky to have spotted her!!) so maybe ours are a breeding pair, I hope so. | | | |
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