Great Spot Christmas Special
Our amazing female Great Spotted Woodpecker - green on yellow - is back at its wintering site in Northamptonshire, 100 Km from its breeding site in Hertfordshire, for the third year!
Ken Smith awarded BTO Tucker Medal 2017
It was a huge honour for Ken Smith to be awarded the BTO Tucker Medal at the British Trust for Ornithology annual conference on 9 December 2017.
Meet us at the BTO Conference on 8th December
Are you interested in finding out more about the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker project?
Then catch up with us at the BTO Conference at Swanwick on 8th-10th December. Ken will be giving a short presentation at the Nest Record Scheme get-together on the Friday evening after dinner.
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker nesting success in 2017
The results of the Lesser Spot nest recording project this year are now available in our 2017 report.
This is the third year of the initiative and the most successful yet with 13 nests monitored.
We have had support this year from more volunteers searching for and finding nests and the birds have had a pretty good breeding season too.
Study of Lesser Spots in Lincoln
Andy Sims detailed study of breeding Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers in Swanpool Lincoln in 2015 and 2016 has been published in the Lincolnshire Bird Report 2015, link to the full report This is a great story -
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker by Richard Jacobs 2019 
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker © Tim Preston
Don't confuse juvenile Great Spotted Woodpeckers with male Lesser Spots - they both have red caps!
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Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers in 2019