Almost embarrassed to admit that this is the first time that I’ve actually seen a woodpecker!!!

by aspiranthighlander

18 comments

  1. Around where my in-laws stay are lots of them.

    Mother in law hates them because apparently they eat baby birds? It’s amusing when she hears them, fucking shouts like a banshee hahaha. Gotta love family

  2. why is that almost embarrassing? i’ve never seen one either. heard them once or twice.

  4. I haven’t seen one either. I do have a transparent bird feeder at my kitchen window though and the blackbirds, robins, blue tits and cheeky squirrel that frequent it are a source of delight.

  5. I ain’t never seen or heard a woodpecker in my life. I don’t know if it’s because woodpeckers aren’t found in the south or I’m just really fucking unlucky.

  6. I didn’t see one until last year when we found out that they chill in our garden sometimes

  7. They are master level hide & seek champions. Noisy af though!

  9. And you got this picture if it? That is nothing less than a miracle. I hear them 10 times for every one I see, and rarely get a good look.

  10. I’ve never seen one either heard them a few times I’ve also never seen an eagle irl

  11. Only seen once in my years and I used to got our foraging and fishing a lot so was many time within their habitat , where did i see it , one flew into the garden one day hammered at a dead tree in the garden and flew away over 50 years seen 1.

  12. you got this photo your first time seeing one!?! You jammy bastard, I had to take about 100 blurry pictures of sticks before one was half decent 😂

  13. That’s crazy I seen one of these birds yesterday and stopped to look because I’d never seen one before (38yo) I had no idea it was a woodpecker

  14. I seen both the Greater spotted Wood pecker and The green wood pecker in Scotland.

  15. I wouldn’t say it’s embarrassing. I’ve only ever seen one (heard them lots though). It was in my more-or-less-Edinburgh-city-centre back garden during Covid lockdown.

  16. Wait till you see (and hear) a green one! What a treat. There’s a few in Edinburgh.

  17. I saw one in my garden and nearly pissed myself with excitement.

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