Seeing a Woodpecker in the Garden: A Nature lover's Moment

This visitor made my morning, when he visited our garden today. He terrorised our tree stump looking for food, making quite a mess in the process!!

Apologise for the quality of filming - I didn't want to try and get any closer in case I scared him away, so filmed through a window and then garden mesh - not ideal, but it was wonderful seeing a woodpecker in the garden and watch him at work.

The woodpecker in the video is a Pileated Woodpecker, quite a large and a very unmistakable bird. They make large oval-shaped holes in decaying trees - (or stumps in our case) to search for insects. Occasionally they will visit feeders in the appropriate habitat and are especially fond of suet.

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