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Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major)

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Great Spotted Woodpecker female (Dendrocopos major) in flight, Lake District National Park, Cumbria, England

Juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopus major) feeding on peanuts at a garden feeding station, Cumbria, England

Juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopus major) feeding on peanuts at a garden feeding station, Cumbria, England: the tongue is extended and the eye part closed.

Juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopus major) feeding on peanuts at a garden feeding station, Cumbria, England

Male Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopus major) with food in its bill, perching in a garden Lilac tree (Syringa sp), Cumbria, England

Male Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopus major) (right) feeding a juvenile on a garden bird table, Cumbria, England: Image 1 in a sequence of 7

Male Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopus major) (right) feeding a juvenile on a garden bird table, Cumbria, England: Image 2 in a sequence of 7

Male Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopus major) (right) feeding a juvenile on a garden bird table, Cumbria, England: Image 3 in a sequence of 7

Male Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopus major) (right) feeding a juvenile on a garden bird table, Cumbria, England: Image 4 in a sequence of 7

Male Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopus major) (right) feeding a juvenile on a garden bird table, Cumbria, England: Image 5 in a sequence of 7

Male Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopus major) (right) feeding a juvenile on a garden bird table, Cumbria, England: Image 6 in a sequence of 7

Male Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopus major) (right) feeding a juvenile on a garden bird table, Cumbria, England: Image 7 in a sequence of 7

Juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopus major) (left) waiting on a bird table to be fed by its parent, Cumbria, England

Juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopus major), Cumbria, England

Parent Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) (left) feeding its fledgling (right) with pieces of peanut from a garden feeding station, Lake District National Park, Cumbria, England

Female Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) on a peanut feeder with guardian to exclude squirrels and larger birds, Leighton Moss, Lancashire, England. Image 1 of 3: Surmountable problem?

Female Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) on a peanut feeder with guardian to exclude squirrels and larger birds, Leighton Moss, Lancashire, England. Image 2 of 3: Insert the head very carefully...

Female Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) on a peanut feeder with guardian to exclude squirrels and larger birds, Leighton Moss, Lancashire, England. Image 3 of 3: It helps to have a long neck and long tongue (tongue is visible)!

Juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) on a garden bird table, Cumbria, England

Juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) on a garden peanut feeder, Cumbria, England

Juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) on a dry limestone wall, Cumbria, England

Juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopus major) on an old limestone garden wall, Cumbria, England

Fledgling Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) (left) being fed by its male parent in a garden Lilac tree, Cumbria, England

Juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) on a garden bird table, Cumbria, England

Juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) watching its out-of-focus parent flying towards it with food, Cumbria, England

Juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) perching on a moss-covered tree trunk with an out-of-focus fern frond behind, Cumbria, England

Juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) perching on the back of decaying garden furniture, Cumbria, England

Juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) on a garden bird table, Cumbria, England

Juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) (right) being fed by its male parent on a garden bird table, Cumbria, England

Juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) perching on the stem of a garden Tree Fern (Dicksonia antarctica), Cumbria, England

Male Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) on a garden peanut feeder, with a beakful of peanut fragments for feeding to its offspring, Cumbria, England

Male Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) on a garden peanut feeder, Cumbria, England

Male Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) on a garden peanut feeder, looking upwards for a possible aerial threat, Cumbria, England

Male Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) on a garden peanut feeder, Cumbria, England

Female Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) on a garden peanut feeder, Cumbria, England

Female Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) (above) feeding her fledgling, Cumbria, England: Image 1 of 3

Female Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) (above) feeding her fledgling, Cumbria, England: Image 2 of 3

Female Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) (above) feeding her fledgling, Cumbria, England: Image 3 of 3

Female Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) (left) with her fledgling (right), Cumbria, England

Adult Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopus major) from the rear, with its juvenile beyond, facing the camera, Cumbria, England

Female Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) on a garden seed feeder, holding a black sunflower seed in its bill; Cumbria, England

Female Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) on a garden peanut feeder, Cumbria, England

Male Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) on a garden peanut feeder: note how it is using its tongue to hold pieces of peanut up against its upper mandible. Cumbria, England

Male Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) on a garden bird table, Cumbria, England

Juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) on a garden bird table, Cumbria, England