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Woodpecker Dublin / Wicklow border

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  • 25-02-2019 7:30pm
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    fortyplus
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    Hi
    Doing a bit of work in the garden on Saturday (23-Feb-2019) I was amazed to hear what can only a woodpecker somewhere in the trees around. Quite clear and recurring at intervals over the afternoon.

    Google search indicates there are some Woodpecker in Wicklow. All news to me.
    I am in the Shankill area.
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    upupup
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    fortyplus wrote: »
    Hi
    Doing a bit of work in the garden on Saturday (23-Feb-2019) I was amazed to hear what can only a woodpecker somewhere in the trees around. Quite clear and recurring at intervals over the afternoon.

    Google search indicates there are some Woodpecker in Wicklow. All news to me.
    I am in the Shankill area.

    They were featured on "A wild irish year" at the weekend.they are making a comeback in Ireland.
    Episode 4.Winter..https://www.rte.ie/player/series/a-wild-irish-year/SI0000003098?epguid=IP000062979


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    fortyplus
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    And he / she is at it again yesterday & today!
    I think I can hear more in the distance also.


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    gzoladz
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    Nice one, he may be nesting in the area


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    bolgbui41
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    They've been regular visitors to my grandparent's house in south Wicklow for about four years now.


    For those interested, there was a book released a couple of years ago detailing their return to Wicklow - I haven't read it, but my granda has and he quite enjoyed it. It's called "A Life in the Trees" and is by Declan Murphy.


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    Zoo4m8
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    bolgbui41 wrote: »
    They've been regular visitors to my grandparent's house in south Wicklow for about four years now.


    For those interested, there was a book released a couple of years ago detailing their return to Wicklow - I haven't read it, but my granda has and he quite enjoyed it. It's called "A Life in the Trees" and is by Declan Murphy.

    Interesting book, well worth a read..we’ve had Woodpeckers here (north Wicklow) since last winter. During the drought last summer an adult and junvenile visited the pond in the garden on a number of occasions for a drink so they obviously bred somewhere in the vicinity.


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    tricky D
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    From Wings 2009 https://www.birdwatchireland.ie/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=yN0qpHhymyQ%3d&tabid=966

    There was also a pair in Sutton a year or two prior and some occasional reports of them elsewhere in Howth in the following years.


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