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Janbrad
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Posted - 03/03/2010 :  20:07:41  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
The greater spotted woodpecker has been busy tapping away on a silver birch in the garden next door today. Guess he knows spring is on the way
sweetpea
Tree

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Posted - 03/03/2010 :  20:15:00  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
i have an old tree stump, trunk really, and going by all the bits fallen out of it, it looks like there is a woodpecker visiting that though I haven't seen one.
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Cherry
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Posted - 03/03/2010 :  20:35:25  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
You would hear it for sure Sweetpea. We have these.
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sweetpea
Tree

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Posted - 03/03/2010 :  20:45:25  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Cherry

You would hear it for sure Sweetpea. We have these.
It is quite aways down the garden and this particular trunk is quite soft where it has rotted.
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SueA
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Posted - 04/03/2010 :  11:43:39  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
We don't get woodpeckers in our garden, I don't think I've ever seen any locally either but you get them a few miles away in Cheshire. There was an interesting piece in the Times the other day about 'birders' getting excited because a black woodpecker had been spotted apparently drumming on a telegraph pole in Cumbria & you never get black woodpeckers in this country. They were disappointed when someone explained that it was a decoy stuck there by BT in an effort to scare off any great spotted woodpeckers who like to drum on the poles especially the metal bits at the top!
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Janbrad
Mrs

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Posted - 04/03/2010 :  12:36:53  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I saw that on our local TV news last night. Apparently one lady was really embarrassed because she had contacted a local birdwatch group to report the sighting.
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Piskie
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Posted - 04/03/2010 :  12:42:24  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
We've a woodpecker here who taps away in the mornings
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sweetpea
Tree

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Posted - 04/03/2010 :  12:59:24  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Piskie

We've a woodpecker here who taps away in the mornings

Not on your keyboard I hope
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Piskie
Mrs

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Posted - 04/03/2010 :  13:09:11  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
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Not on your keyboard I hope
That's the trouble with working from home - it blends into one! I'm coming back as a rich man's kept woman
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sweetpea
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Posted - 04/03/2010 :  16:32:51  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Piskie

quote:
Originally posted by sweetpea

Not on your keyboard I hope
That's the trouble with working from home - it blends into one! I'm coming back as a rich man's kept woman
What about a poor man's orchid? Then you could be kept in the garden.
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Piskie
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Posted - 04/03/2010 :  16:36:55  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
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