Great Spotted Woodpecker ( Dendrocopos major )

The main event of the day was lunch at the North Lakes Hotel to celebrate Kanyl's "cough" year birthday.   A great meal and it turned out all lunch bookings were getting a complimentary glass of "bubbly" so off to a good start.  A very pleasant time was had in a well spaced out airy dining room.

The Great Spotted Woodpeckers have started visiting the feeders again.  So they just had to be a blip.  This is a this years youngster.  The total red cap shows it is an immature bird.  If it is male the next moult will reduce the red to just on the nape.   A female loses all the red and has a black crown.