Thursday, 1 May 2014

Danger! Woodpecker has discovered the nest!

A Great Spotted Woodpecker has just discovered the nest! He peeked into the box and tested the toughness of the material around the opening.

In the video below you can see the bird on the nest making a threatening pose towards the woodpecker. You can also hear the woodpecker testing the wood to see if he can enlarge the opening and get into the box.

Threatening pose towards woodpecker, 1 May 2014 2:15pm

If the woodpecker gets into the box he will eat all the babies and there is nothing the parents can do about it. Fortunately, the opening of the box is reinforced with a metal plate so simply enlarging the opening is not possible. He would have to cut out a new opening from scratch. This is possible but hard work because the box is made from good quality wood.

Now that the woodpecker knows the location of the nest, I expect he will come back and make more attempts to get to the nest. He probably has babies of it's own to feed....



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