I make no apologies for this large series of images, it is the first time I have seen a Great Spotted Woodpecker in the wild and trust me I have looked and along with that my camera was ready and poised for action. I believe this is a female as the males have a red spot on their heads which doesn’t appear to be there and it was absolutely heavenly to watch her move around looking for bugs in the bark. A very happy moment in what was a lovely sunny Sunday – its gone back to dreary cold glove weather, what can you do eh.