Three woodpeckers

There were three woodpeckers on view today.

Green Woodpeckers are very timid when they're safe up trees, and go round to the back of the branch if they see you pointing a camera at them. On the ground they are fearless, perhaps believing themselves well camouflaged in the grass, and this one came right up to me as it searched for edible creatures.

A Great Spotted Woodpecker climbed around a tree on Buck Hill, looking for larvae in the bark.

There was another at the edge of the leaf yard. This was an awkward video to get, at great distance and in bad light -- sorry it's so grainy.

Both the Peregrines were on the tower. I could only get a picture from the far side of the lake before they flew away, but it's of slight interest because the male, on the right, can be seen eating a pigeon.

Pigeon Eater was off hunting, but his mate was keeping his place on the Dell restaurant roof.

A Common Gull perched on the buoys at the Lido. Numbers have gone down considerably. They arrive late and leave early.

The Grey Heron pair in the nest at the west end of the island were still looking into the bottom of the nest. I took pictures from every available angle and still couldn't see what was going on.

A Carrion Crow rinsed something in the water flooding out of the broken drain at the Vista. It looked like the remains of a frog.

Jackdaws lined the path between Peter Pan and the Italian Garden. The flock ranges widely and you never know where they will turn up.

The female Pied Wagtail whizzed past and landed on the roof of the boat hire building. This is a good place for insects, probably attracted by bird droppings, and you often see wagtails hunting there.

A Blue Tit in the Rose Garden had found a small larva on a rose bush.

A Coal Tit waited on another bush.

This is the mate of the familiar Robin by the Buck Hill shelter, singing in a tree. It's still shy and you can't feed it.

The female Robin at Mount Gate perched among withered wintersweet flowers.

The female Great Crested Grebe of the pair by the bridge was fishing at the Triangle.

A pair of Shovellers fed on the edge of the reed bed by the Italian Garden.