Christine's walking & birds blog

In the afternoon, an exhausting tramp across Burnham Beeches and Egypt Woods brought the best of rewards: a lesser spotted woodpecker (in fact there might have been two).

This was my first summer sighting of a lesser spotted woodpecker in the woods - and it could be a juvenile bird, as the red appears to be spotty rather than the solid colour of an adult male. It was extremely wary, and just after I grabbed these pics it vanished into the canopy.