Bob the gardener, green woodpeckers eat ants, we regularly see them hopping round the lawn looking for the entrances to antnests in the ground. They also check round the cracks in the driveway. If you’ve got any suitable spots like that, they would be better for your trailcam.
That's good @FritillariaScotland, I want to make a micro pond but just don't know where I'd put it. What have you made it from? A submerged washing up bowl maybe?
@Crazybeelady I set the bar very low with my white washing up bowl, but it seems to do the job no problem at all. It's not the prettiest, but who cares, the beasties like it 😆 My garden is really small, but so is the washing up bowl, so I settled on a place near the hedge that I share with my neighbour. I was hoping to capitalise on an already existing wildlife corridor.
The only time a green woodpecker has been in our garden, it was taking ants out of the lawn. The great spotted woodpeckers like pink fat blocks. This was taken August 2016. I am hoping for a return this year, it is nesting in a dead tree 50 yards away.
@Crazybeelady I set the bar very low with my white washing up bowl, but it seems to do the job no problem at all. It's not the prettiest, but who cares, the beasties like it 😆 My garden is really small, but so is the washing up bowl, so I settled on a place near the hedge that I share with my neighbour. I was hoping to capitalise on an already existing wildlife corridor.
We occasionally have a great spotted woodpecker visiting the garden and he visits our coconut shell
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
Green woodpeckers come here for ants in our gravelled area and in the grass.
No greater spotted woodpeckers here but loads in our last garden. One tribe preferred the fat blocks and the other preferred the peanuts. Loads of fun when two sets of parents brought their young to show them what, where and how.
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Latest coverage of the "Blackbird Biologue" MrsB, AuntyB [?could even be last year's chick reared by same couple] & SprogB (centre) getting on with turning over the recently-applied leafy mulch atop the early potato patch/raised bed. *MrB was overseeing the 'picnicking party' - mostly 'cos there's always a bevy of jackdaws on the rooftops nearby! Update: since this pic was taken, the happy couple have started a new nest site in the nearby shrubbery. **Pics to follow (but I'm wary of disturbing them until the interior decor has been decided upon!).
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They feed mostly on ants. We have them here regularly and I've never seen them on feeders or bird tables.
East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
No greater spotted woodpeckers here but loads in our last garden. One tribe preferred the fat blocks and the other preferred the peanuts. Loads of fun when two sets of parents brought their young to show them what, where and how.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.