Home-building
These Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers are busy excavating. Here’s the female inspecting her handiwork after a long session of extracting wood from their nest hole:
And here’s the male in the middle of spraying wood scraps across the woodland floor far below:
I’m looking forward to the pecking of tiny beaks.
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