Woodpeckers...........some thoughts

Lesser Spotted Woodpecker is still present in Pengelli, Janet had a calling bird this time in the trees to the bottom of the wood from the reserve entrance, on Tuesday this week.

I post Bob's reply to a question about the sensitivity of discussing the breeding of these scarce / rare breeders in Pembs.

I noted Mark Wilson’s Atlas entry of LSW at Pengelli. It would be useful if more people could look for this species (and green woodpeckers too, probably the rarer of the two now in Pembs. I hope to put something on the Blog soon about a woodpecker project running in Herefordshire (my old County) where there is quite a thriving community BAP project running on the three woodpecker species. There, they are getting more folk involved with finding/recording them this way, having discovered that there is precious little research on all three species available in the public domain. I am not sure that LSW would be threatened by publicising locations over here, but what we really need is folk who get to know them better, their giz and calls etc so that we can turn more up more sound records of this elusive species (and GWs too, probably still here somewhere at very low density)! So sharing information/knowledge is possibly the key to helping these declining species.