Last chance to find a Lesser Spotted Woodpecker nest
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Now is your last chance and a good time to find a Lesser Spotted Woodpecker nest, For the next weekor two LSW young will be calling from the nest hole and you may hear them. So have a good search in your local woods.
Lesser Spot Net volunteers are already watching/monitoring twelve nests accross the Midlands and South of England.
If you find a nest please let us know so that we can help you monitor it and gather useful information to help the Lesser Spot Net project.
Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers in the Wyre Forest - 1st chicks of 2025
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LesserSpotNet volunteer organisers, Ken and Linda Smith, were delighted to visit the Wyre Forest National Nature Reserve in Worcestershire on 2 May. We were guests of Natural England who employed an expert contractor, Craig, to survey Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers this spring. The forest, mainly Oak woodland, is a stronghold for Lesser Spots and much other wildlife and is estimated to hold at least 15 pairs. Craig had found four Lesser Spot nest sites so far this year.
The first nest had a female LSW incubating seven eggs, this is an above average clutch size, which is good. Note: in the photo some of the eggs are hidden under the bird.
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Workshop 2026
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Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Workshop – 7-8 March 2026
Wildwood Trust, Wealden Forest Park, Canterbury Road, Herne, Kent CT6 7LQ
Organised for Woodpecker Network volunteers and professionals from conservation organisation.
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Workshop March 2025
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Woodpecker Network was pleased to organise a workshop to discuss the monitoring and conservation of the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker on 19th March 2025. Understanding the drivers and arresting the decline of the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker is a nationally high conservation priority.
March 2025 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker update
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Lesser Spots are most active in March and April, calling, drumming and displaying. So a sunny morning now is the best time to find them.
So far this year LesserSpotNet volunteers have recorded LSW in Dartmoor and Exmoor, The Quantocks, New Forest, West and East Sussex, North Kent Blean woods complex, Essex, Berkshire, Derbyshire, the Wyre Forest and more.
Kent Ornithological Society are carrying out a county wide Lesser Spot survey with good results so far, see their website for more details.