Christine's walking & birds blog

Burnham Beeches

On a morning walk, I had a brief, neck-breaking sighting of a lesser spotted woodpecker at the very top of a tall beech tree. It's only in the last couple of years that I've gone hunting for lesser-spots in summer, and this was my fourth summer sighting.

Also present were male and female blackcaps, two treecreepers chasing each other round a tree trunk, juvenile nuthatches, great tits and long-tailed tits, a couple of song thrushes and a juvenile great spotted woodpecker.