Monday 24 January 2011

Female Green Woodpecker


This woodpecker spent twenty minutes or more pecking the lawn for ants. We weren't sure how to tell the sexes apart, but I've discovered that this one is a female, because it has an all-black moustache, whereas the male has a red splodge in his.

2 comments:

Jackie Sayle said...

You're getting some wonderful photos!

hydra said...

Alan took this one!