Peter Tonkin and I went back to Stithians southern cut-off hide this morning looking for shows of juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker and we were not to be disappointed.
The first thing that I saw on entering the hide was a lone juvenile right in front of the hide and by lunchtime we had taken hundreds of images of both the male and female adult birds visiting regularly while feeding three individual Juveniles on different occasions.
The male was particularly busy and it was interesting to note the manner in which he always kept an obstruction between himself and the youngster to enable him to control the reach of its sharp jabbing beak so as to avoid any personal accidental damage.
As soon as the juvenile obtained a position without an obstacle between them the male would fly off and start the procedure all over again in another location.
The adult male moves to a different area and insists that the juvenile flies to his location before passing over more food from behind his defences !
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The Juvenile makes one more gesture to be fed again before they both leave and it gets its final reward !!
A very rewarding visit to Stithians today with many other subjects recorded which will be included in another blog tomorrow, HAPPY DAYS !!
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