Wednesday 25 August.
Today there was a young greater spotted woodpecker on the middle pole of the colonade looking just like a cartoon of itself as it pecked the pole and hopped all the way up until it was sitting on the top with such a look of astonishment - what happened to the rest of the tree then? Where did it go? Did you great tits steal it? And off it flew.
It returned a few days later and helped itself (rather violently) to some of the nuts in the feeder making it sway rather wildly - maybe it made itself seasick (did you know goldfish can be seasick?, just a useless piece of information for you there) because after flying off with a beak full of nuts it has not been seen again.
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A phenological diary for Goathland and surrounds.
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Does what it says on the tin. An online diary of nature and garden notes based in and around Goathland, a small village in the middle of the North York Moors. We have a wide range of birds which visit the garden but being surrounded not only by moorland but also pasture land and some woodland including some lovely mature trees means we have an even greater species list that you might expect. The garden is predominantly herbaceous beds with some shrubbery areas and a fair expanse of grass.
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