. The birds of our country. l82 GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER. thickly studded parks and plantations. It nests in the New Forest, but is described as " thinly distributed and wandering in autumn ". It is a resident bird, whose numbers are increased in the autumn by visitors from the continent. The Great Spotted Woodpecker spends most of its life on trees ; searching their branches and trunks for. GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER. food by day, and roosting in holes in them by night. Its food consists principally of insects, but it also eats fruit in summer, nuts and berries in autumn. It is a curi
. The birds of our country. l82 GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER. thickly studded parks and plantations. It nests in the New Forest, but is described as " thinly distributed and wandering in autumn ". It is a resident bird, whose numbers are increased in the autumn by visitors from the continent. The Great Spotted Woodpecker spends most of its life on trees ; searching their branches and trunks for. GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER. food by day, and roosting in holes in them by night. Its food consists principally of insects, but it also eats fruit in summer, nuts and berries in autumn. It is a curious sight to see this bird working its way up the trunk of a tree, peering about in every direction and tapping on the bark as it goes, travelling round and. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Stewart, H. E. London, Digby, Long & Co.
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