{"id":20864,"date":"2014-06-03T23:29:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T22:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=20864"},"modified":"2014-06-03T23:29:03","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T22:29:03","slug":"great-spotted-woodpecker-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/great-spotted-woodpecker-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Spotted Woodpecker special"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I drew into the car park at work this morning my attention was grabbed by the incessant calling of young birds. I eventually located the source, high in one of the boundary trees. The unmistakeable home of a great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major<\/em>). I could hear the young, but couldn’t see them.<\/p>\n

\"Woodpecker<\/a><\/p>\n

I was back there at lunchtime and spent a fruitless hour staring up into the tree. The calling was continuous, and by watching the adult I eventually figured out that the young were lurking somewhere slightly higher up the branch. Cue walking round a tree for five minutes. No luck. They are certainly up there, but the higher branches are shrouded with leaf cover and I suspect the current nesting point is on the upper side of the limb. Try as I might I saw absolutely nothing.<\/p>\n

As the end of my lunch hour approached I headed back to work, pausing by a small area at the other side of the car park. Some small birds were on a feeder, and then – finally – a woodpecker appeared. It’s the male and was busy tapping away at a tree, presumably in search of insects. Perfect!<\/p>\n

\"Great<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Great<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Great<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Great<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Great<\/a><\/p>\n

Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I drew into the car park at work this morning my attention was grabbed by the incessant calling of young birds. I eventually located the source, high in one of the boundary trees. The unmistakeable home of a great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major). I could hear the young, but couldn’t see them. I was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,980,3],"tags":[198],"class_list":["post-20864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behaviour","category-birds-2","category-wildlife","tag-great-spotted-woodpecker","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}