🦉 The great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major)
📚 Dendrocopos Greek: dendron tree, coptō to hit, beat
📚 major (lat.) large
One day in the middle of July I saw a teenage woodpecker. He first moved up the tree, at the very top he tore off a cone, one might even say threw it down. And then flew to the ground to this cone.
Although this teenager already knew how to feed and search for food on his own, he was still too young and inexperienced to handle cones. He turned her over, looked, tried to peck, but nothing worked.
How it should be
Everything comes with experience, and I'm sure that later his parents showed him what to do and how to do it.
In the photo, a woodpecker has hollowed out a hole in a tree to conveniently insert a cone there. The so-called "woodpecker's forge".
| Camera | Lens |
|---|---|
| Nikon D5200 | Tamron SP AF 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD |
Tell more about this woodpeckers forge. I have never heard of this.
A woodpecker hollows out a special recess in a tree, into which it then inserts cones. So it is convenient for him to cut them and get coniferous seeds.
I thought woodpeckers were bug eaters. 🤔🤔
Interesting.
Of course, but in winter there are no insects, and they feed on plant foods.😉
How interesting to photograph the "woodpecker's forge", learn something new every day, clever to build a spot on the tree to enjoy the meal aloft.
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Thanks 😉
Bird watching wishes, hope an unusual one at the other end of lens always.
That woodpecker's forge is a masterpiece. I've seen them puting almongs in the tree barks.
You are right, all comes with experience and the young bird will learn.