Driftway, Upper Beeding, Steyning (garden). Nothing else quite like it. This is a female - males have a red stripe within the check patch bit below the eye which females lack.

Green Woodpecker ♀︎ (Picus viridis) (14/11/2005) Driftway, Upper Beeding, Steyning (garden). Nothing else quite like it. This is a female - males have a red stripe within the check patch bit below the eye which females lack.

Driftway, Upper Beeding, Steyning (garden). They love digging in lawns as their main food is ants. They don't drum on trees (or rarely) unlike other woodpecker species. They have a loud call instead - a yaffle yaffle sound which is quite distinctive.

Green Woodpecker ♀︎ (Picus viridis) (14/11/2005) Driftway, Upper Beeding, Steyning (garden). They love digging in lawns as their main food is ants. They don't drum on trees (or rarely) unlike other woodpecker species. They have a loud call instead - a yaffle yaffle sound which is quite distinctive.

Green Woodpecker ♀︎ (Picus viridis) (14/11/2005) Driftway, Upper Beeding, Steyning (garden).

Green Woodpecker ♀︎ (Picus viridis) (24/11/2005) Driftway, Upper Beeding, Steyning (garden). Sadly no photos of males with their red cheek stripe yet.

Green Woodpecker ♀︎ (Picus viridis) (24/11/2005) Driftway, Upper Beeding, Steyning (garden).