LauraW Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 I saw two green woodpeckers in Camberwell Old Cemetery on Sunday. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/31055-green-woodpeckers/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim hill Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 theres one over the road from me,in "one tree hill" church yard Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/31055-green-woodpeckers/#findComment-633339 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsR Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 I had one in my garden this morning with its long beak in my lawn. I have never seen it before - a red tuft on it's head and when it flew off a yellow bottom - very striking and beautiful. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/31055-green-woodpeckers/#findComment-633340 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnL Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 cider woodpecker :) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/31055-green-woodpeckers/#findComment-633364 Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodland Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 They are parakeets. I have got a bird feeder and they are lovely to see up close through the window - there are a lots of them around SE london. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/31055-green-woodpeckers/#findComment-633490 Share on other sites More sharing options...
philosophie Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 There are parakeets AND woodpeckers! Got very excited about spotting a woodpecker at East Dulwich Station on Sunday. Because I'm a bit sad like that :-) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/31055-green-woodpeckers/#findComment-633502 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 woodland Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> They are parakeets. xxxxxParakeets don't have red tufts on their heads - not the ones we get round here, anyway :))Green woodpecker:http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.arkwildlife.co.uk/Images/uploads/Content/Birds/GreenWoodpecker.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.arkwildlife.co.uk/Information/54/Green_Woodpecker-C-_Identification-C-_Habitat_and_Food.html&h=635&w=400&sz=21&tbnid=pVjh7bsyR-W5YM:&tbnh=102&tbnw=64&zoom=1&usg=__5aBclCI7jWn8XONRNtVPSwsFMF4=&docid=2BlFzcdSJRp-nM&sa=X&ei=y0RkUYblLISX1AWKo4CAAg&ved=0CDcQ9QEwAQ&dur=1796Green parakeet (I think this is the right one?):http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.free-pet-wallpapers.com/free-pet-wallpapers/free-pet-desktop-backgrounds/554152970.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.free-pet-wallpapers.com/Birds-pet-wallpapers/Parrot-birds/Aratinga-holochlora-green-Parakeet.html&h=1003&w=1254&sz=192&tbnid=ipzogWpf_rv3-M:&tbnh=93&tbnw=116&zoom=1&usg=__DuI0Gy7jb0wUYuwwKid9SQDMLXg=&docid=KHYxS-jAnaJtXM&sa=X&ei=_0RkUcWHCeWa0QWhwYAY&ved=0CD0Q9QEwAw&dur=1749Also see:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Green_Woodpeckerandhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_parakeets Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/31055-green-woodpeckers/#findComment-633505 Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxxi Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 philosophie Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> There are parakeets AND woodpeckers! Got very> excited about spotting a woodpecker at East> Dulwich Station on Sunday. Because I'm a bit sad> like that :-)Caught a LB bound train at 12-ish today and could have sworn I heard a woodpecker in the trees between the platform and those houses around Dulwich Hamlet Fc - this post makes me think it really might have been...? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/31055-green-woodpeckers/#findComment-633540 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex K Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 Maxxi, I live on that estate. I've heard the woodpeckers' drumming. To hear it makes me happy. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/31055-green-woodpeckers/#findComment-633566 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim hill Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 same here ALEX Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/31055-green-woodpeckers/#findComment-633587 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burbage Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 maxxi Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Caught a LB bound train at 12-ish today and could> have sworn I heard a woodpecker in the trees> between the platform and those houses around> Dulwich Hamlet Fc - this post makes me think it> really might have been...?It'll have been a woodpecker, but probably one of the spotted woodpeckers (most likely lesser spotted), as they do more drumming. We've also, apparently, got greater spotted woodpeckers round here too, which do the same thing. And treecreepers, which are a sort of woodpecker that creep up trees, that don't.The green ones make a noise like a mad horse, most like the noise that the little grebes make on the lake, except that the little grebes call falls in pitch as it goes on, and they live on the lake, which woodpeckers don't.If all goes well, and the drumming works out, in a few weeks time we should start hearing the woodpecker chicks squeaking from inside holes in trees. Parrots do that too, but there's usually one of the adult parrots nearby, in which case it's not a woodpecker. I think that the parrot gets fed too, when the other adult returns, but I'm not sure. They do a bit of nose-rubbing before one of them vomits down the other's neck, so that might be more in the way of courtship. Not that there's any obvious distinction between courtship and being fed, except in the case of humans, and even then the two seem to be easily confused. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/31055-green-woodpeckers/#findComment-633618 Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxxi Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 Thanks for the info. - I've heard all kinds of birds over in Peckham Rye Park, especially at dusk, but this today was quite unexpected and, while I couldn't see it, it cheered up a gloomy platform. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/31055-green-woodpeckers/#findComment-633627 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fl0wer Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Green woodpeckers rely on ants as part of their diet. It is a good indicator that people are leaving the insects alone in orchards and in unmown lawns, especially. I learnt yesterday that their unusually distinctive cry is known as 'yaffling'. This is different from any other bird, including the green parakeet - and some descriptions related to spotted woodpeckers, which you will probably notice drumming on tree bark. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/31055-green-woodpeckers/#findComment-633648 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 As maxxi/alex k/tim hill say, there are certainly woodpeckers along the railway line. Anyone who lives along Quorn Rd, Ivanhoe Rd, Copleston Rd, etc will hear them every day. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/31055-green-woodpeckers/#findComment-633657 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianr Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Is this a spate? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/31055-green-woodpeckers/#findComment-633688 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siduhe Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 fl0wer Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> I learnt yesterday that their unusually> distinctive cry is known as 'yaffling'. Indeed. Hence Professor Yaffle**for those who didn't grow up in the UK in the 70s - please see... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/31055-green-woodpeckers/#findComment-633741 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 I used to work at Dulwich Hospital many moons ago, and I sometimes saw Great Spotted Woodpeckers from my office window, which was at the back and overlooked the wild ground by the railway.Well, only one at a time, so maybe it was always the same one :) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/31055-green-woodpeckers/#findComment-633746 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angharad_L Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 I've def seen a woodpecker while walking up to the train platform, I heard it first and then spotted it in the trees! x Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/31055-green-woodpeckers/#findComment-633749 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pearl1 Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 Are there any owls around here? I could swear I heard one along greendale a few nights back, but that's the first time in 17 years! Is it possible or am I imagining it? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/31055-green-woodpeckers/#findComment-634108 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 definitely a green woodpecker - not a parakeet! we saw one in the cemetery on good friday, lovely flash of green swooping along. I think they are rarer than the spotted ones? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/31055-green-woodpeckers/#findComment-634546 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 pearl1 Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Are there any owls around here? I could swear I> heard one along greendale a few nights back, but> that's the first time in 17 years! Is it possible> or am I imagining it?It's not unheard of...http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,639480,639763#msg-639763 Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/31055-green-woodpeckers/#findComment-634576 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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