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Paradise
Ive made this shot specially as season greetings card one year ago. Short visit to feeding field, decoration of the feeder with toys, special menu applying and waiting for the hero. In twenty minutes the woodpecker arrived, I made a photo and departed. Change of the background is the only...- Victor Tyakht
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- dendrocopos major great spotted woodpecker paradise
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- Category: Art & Graphics
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Don't Snatch
They were completely unconcerned by my presence in the garden. This juvenile was constantly calling for feed most of the day. However, it took many attempts to get one picture without too much movement in it.- delia todd
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- 2007 dendrocopos major great spotted woodpecker june leica apo77 & nikon p4500 lithuania vilnius
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Cone-flakes for breakfast
High up in a dead Pine, in the shadow of a living Pine, is the perfect place to position a Pine Cone for breakfast, as insects and larva are few and far between.- hansbertil
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- dendrocopos major great spotted woodpecker
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Great Spotted Woodpecker
I really ought to work, but sun was shining, and up for less than 8 hours, so walking two hours with 5 kg camera lens sounded like a healthy excersice! The bird read my thoughts when it left the boring man-made pole, and flew to a pine-tree close to me, snatched off a cone, put it in a crack...- hansbertil
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- dendrocopos major great spotted woodpecker
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Forest mood
At sunset in late autumn light is scarce in the woods, but you often get a sense of the "mystique" of the forest in this light...(Technical quality tends to suffer during these conditions...)- hansbertil
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- dendrocopos major great spotted woodpecker
- Comments: 5
- Category: Britain & Europe
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Pecking Order
These two were looking for food in the cracks on this pole. In spite of the title, all seemed friendly. Maybee they were a couple or siblings?- hansbertil
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- dendrocopos major great spotted woodpecker
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Great Spot
Bank holiday Monday and it's pouring down here!! This chap is now a daily visitor so it does help to brighten the day.- kim
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Anthill Demolition
This Great Spotted Woodpecker was giving his best at the anthill. But I doubt he got that much since the ants are far underground during winter.- hansbertil
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- dendrocopos major great spotted woodpecker
- Comments: 3
- Category: Britain & Europe
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Greater Spotted Woodpecker
female- kawwauser
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- dendrocopos major greater spotted woodpecker
- Comments: 3
- Category: Britain & Europe
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Hungry and frozen 2/2
Heavy snow shower, my family warming up inside house, noticed a female woodpecker, quick set-up and 2 luckyshots through foggy window...- Vesna Zadravec
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Hungry and frozen 1/2
Heavy snow shower, my family warming up inside house, noticed a female woodpecker, quick set-up and 2 luckyshots through foggy window...- Vesna Zadravec
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- Category: Britain & Europe