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Great Spotted Woodpecker

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    #32
    Feargal as Luimneach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭Feargal as Luimneach


    Mothman's other GSW from 2005:)
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    #33
    snowstreams
    Registered Users Posts: 1,315 ✭✭✭snowstreams


    Was that a Juvenile GSW in 2005? (i.e. the red cap?) If so it looks like they were already breeding here then so.


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    #34
    Mothman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭Mothman


    Yes and it was early September which was probably too early for a immigrant.


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    #35
    wildlifeman
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    I spotted on beside the ordinance survey in the Phoenix Park.


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    #36
    Smartypantsdig
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    wildlifeman wrote: »
    I spotted on beside the ordinance survey in the Phoenix Park.

    I don't want to dismiss your sighting but could that have been a jay? I was misled by one in the Park a few years back...:o


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    #37
    wildlifeman
    Registered Users Posts: 91 ✭✭wildlifeman


    I am sure. I ws with an expert who has been chasing them for years, same guy that showed me the Snowy Owl in Belmullet.


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    #38
    cuddlycavies
    Registered Users Posts: 970 ✭✭✭cuddlycavies


    Smartypantsdig wrote: »
    I don't want to dismiss your sighting but could that have been a jay? I was misled by one in the Park a few years back...:o

    Reports on the Irish Birding site of Woodpeckers at Pheonix park are almost daily lately.


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    #39
    Smartypantsdig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 116 ✭✭Smartypantsdig


    I better get meself back up to the Park again ;)!!

    Thanks folks, for the clarifications.


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    #40
    Smartypantsdig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 116 ✭✭Smartypantsdig


    Well, I'm just back from the Park and I had a very nice sighting of the great spotted woodpecker! watched it for the best part of five minutes.

    Also saw a buzzard, sparrowhawk and quite a few jays, as well as the usual song and garden birds. What a great resource the city has!!


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    #41
    Mothman
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    Smartypantsdig wrote: »
    Well, I'm just back from the Park and I had a very nice sighting of the great spotted woodpecker! watched it for the best part of five minutes.

    Also saw a buzzard, sparrowhawk and quite a few jays, as well as the usual song and garden birds. What a great resource the city has!!
    Many days you loose, but days like this more than make up!
    Well done!


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    #42
    Birdnuts
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    Smartypantsdig wrote: »
    Well, I'm just back from the Park and I had a very nice sighting of the great spotted woodpecker! watched it for the best part of five minutes.

    Also saw a buzzard, sparrowhawk and quite a few jays, as well as the usual song and garden birds. What a great resource the city has!!

    Great stuff - and you didn't even visit the zoo;)


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    #43
    sables2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 207 ✭✭sables2


    Smartypantsdig wrote: »
    Well, I'm just back from the Park and I had a very nice sighting of the great spotted woodpecker! watched it for the best part of five minutes.

    Also saw a buzzard, sparrowhawk and quite a few jays, as well as the usual song and garden birds. What a great resource the city has!!
    Hi Smartypantsdig,
    Well done on the sights! Whenit's good, it's GOOD :D. PS: Which park can i ask did you spot the GSW?? (Great Spotted Woodpecker)


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    #44
    Smartypantsdig
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    The Phoenix Park. I spotted one up by the OSI buildings and may have seen another one near the Chapelizod gates. The buzzard was down here as well, perched in a chestnut tree.


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    #45
    Into Everything
    Registered Users Posts: 28 ✭Into Everything


    One spotted in Cabinteely Park, Dublin 18 today. Stuck in Wexford and won't make it up until after Christmas. Typical


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    #46
    sables2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 207 ✭✭sables2


    Into Everything wrote: »
    One spotted in Cabinteely Park, Dublin 18 today. Stuck in Wexford and won't make it up until after Christmas. Typical
    Hi Into Everything,
    Cabinteely Park is a 'stones throw' away from me. I'v NEVER though you'd see a GSW there...(or was it the buzzard you meant'?) of all places...Which part: Like, near the park house at the top, or near the football pitches?? You NEED your camera and binos ALWAYS.;)


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    #47
    Into Everything
    Registered Users Posts: 28 ✭Into Everything


    Follow this link http://www.irishbirding.com/birds/web/Display/sighting/29134/Great_Spotted_Woodpecker.html Not to familiar with the layout of the park


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    #48
    sables2
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    Into Everything wrote: »
    Follow this link http://www.irishbirding.com/birds/web/Display/sighting/29134/Great_Spotted_Woodpecker.html Not to familiar with the layout of the park
    Ok, Thanks for that! :)


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    #49
    cameramonkey
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    great to here that these birds are spreading spreading rapidly across the country .

    Do people think this sudden colonisation in so many places is unusual? I suspect but have no information that some of these birds must have been released by people rather than spreading naturally.

    A case of guerilla reintroduction perhaps?


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    #50
    Ditch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 809 ✭✭✭Ditch


    While a search on " Great Spotted Woodpecker " brought up a good few threads related to or mentioning them, I think this is the biggest one, on post count?

    So, I thought I'd mention here that I've now provided information about nest boxes for GSW.

    Please check post # 36. Nest Boxes


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    #51
    boneless
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    Saw one up near Kilmashogue a while back. They are spreading well.


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    #52
    Mothman
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    Heard drumming while in garden :)

    Probably about 400m away in the neighbouring estate. The wind carried the sound. I went in search but the drumming had stopped. First time to hear drumming in ireland. :D


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    #53
    Into Everything
    Registered Users Posts: 28 ✭Into Everything


    I saw and heard one in Cabinteely park last weekend. Amazing sound.


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    #54
    sables2
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    Hi, I go to Cabinteely park a bit - where exactly did you hear the sound? I know BWI were there last autumn doing some research or something similar. Great Spotted Woodpeckers i mean. I might know the particular area you heard the sound. Cheers!


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    #55
    Into Everything
    Registered Users Posts: 28 ✭Into Everything


    PM sent


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    #56
    Mothman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭Mothman


    While milking the woodpecker was drumming away, so I thought, I must go and try view it. Its about 400m away.

    So finished up milking as quick as possible and ran out......no drumming:(

    I'll have another listen now

    EDIT...nothing...will need to go before milking :)


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    #57
    mgwhelan
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    didn't know ya can milk woodpecker :pac:


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    #58
    Mothman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭Mothman


    mgwhelan wrote: »
    didn't know ya can milk woodpecker :pac:
    Well you learn something new everyday ;)


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    #59
    Connacht
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    Off topic, I know, but was in Berlin last weekend and saw two Gt Spotted Woodpeckers. One was in a big city park (Treptower Park) which is fair enough, but the other was in a very small space, barely 70m x 70m, with hardly more than 50 large mature trees, surrounded by city. :)


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    #60
    swifts need our help!
    Registered Users Posts: 944 ✭✭✭swifts need our help!


    I went looking for them 2 weeks ago in County Down. All I saw were two nest holes


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    #61
    boneless
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    I got word that GSW have been seen in Lucan Demense. Will be heading out there as soon as I am mobile again... the curse of the slipped disc is upon me once more :mad:.

    Meanwhile, if any nice person here can confirm this news I would be very grateful :).


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