Christine's walking & birds blog

Late afternoon woods

A lesser spotted woodpecker was seen from the path in the darkening woods. It called several times, then shot up above the trees and flew round in a circle. When it landed on the other side of the path, I realised there was a second bird already in the same tree. There was some crest raising and wing-spreading from one bird. This was the first time I've seen two lesser-spots together - so quite an event.