My Garden

Welcome to my garden blog; we have lived in this house for 32 years and the garden was virtually bare when we moved in. I think we had 2 Queen Elizabeth roses and some Rhubarb!
The small front garden however had 9 huge clumps of orange Mombresia around the lawn's edge.
We garden on heavy clay which is challenging but over the years we've worked out what works and what doesn't.
The garden has been a playground for our three children over the years and we are not precious about it but we do know what we like.
I hope you enjoy following it through the year.

Saturday, June 11, 2011

Greater Spotted Woodpecker ~ June 11th 2011


Great Spotted Woodpecker




We do see two Great Spotted Woodpeckers in the garden at the same time and so assume we have a male and a female but we have, so far, only caught the male on camera clearly. He shows with the red patch at the back of his head which is absent in the female. the juveniles have a red crown so maybe we will be lucky and have them as visitors one day soon.

We might be lucky one day to have a Green Woodpecker visit us
~a true Hampshire (Professor) Yaffle as in Bagpuss~

For further information check out the RSPB web-site here

http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/families/woodpeckers.aspx

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