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Welcome to 'My Life Outside', the personal blog of Adam Tilt through which I aim to share with you the places that I visit and the wildlife that I see on my travels around the UK. My primary interest is in birds and bird photography, but when they aren't playing ball I turn my attention to pretty much everything else.

I am based in a village on the outskirts of Swansea, South Wales. My regular haunts include the Gower Peninsula, the Burry Inlet, Pembrokeshire and the Isle of Mull - all locations with stunning scenery and a vast array of wildlife. Many of the posts on this blog serve as a diary through which I detail my adventures and show the photographs that I have taken. I aim to impart some of my local knowledge along the way and encourage others to get out exploring for themselves. If you want to get involved then please leave comments and follow the blog.

Monday, 30 July 2012

Garden Great Spotted Woodpecker

I am very happy to report that the Great Spotted Woodpecker I previously mentioned has started to become something of a regular on our peanut feeder. On at least three days over the last week I have caught sight if it pecking away, and even managed to get close enough for the following photos on one occasion.

27644 - Great Spotted Woodpecker, Garden

27646 - Great Spotted Woodpecker, Garden

27648 - Great Spotted Woodpecker, Garden

The large red forehead patch indicates that this is a juvenile bird which could explain its presence in our garden and its relative tameness. I certainly hope it continues to visit as I can't think of a much more exciting bird to have attracted in.

6 comments:

TexWisGirl said...

beautiful!

Andrew said...

Superb images Adam...

Sondra said...

a gorgeous shot....and I love that BLUE sky too!!

holdingmoments said...

Great captures Adam.
You won't get rid of him now. lol

Gillian Olson said...

Beautiful bird, and great captures.

Adam Tilt said...

Thanks all. Hoping it sticks around though I'm out of peanuts at the moment.

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