Upmanship
08th October 2020
Safe to say that nature sorts its own hierarchy out in terms of who is the dominant bird at the feeders.
A very healthy and brightly plumaged Great Spotted Woodpecker was happily hanging on the peanut feeder when a usurper muscled in. After a few seconds of name calling and some unsocial behaviour the former woodpecker was seen off by the second bird. How very rude!
However, within a few minutes the status changed when a female Sparrowhawk landed on the nearby tree and the usurper was forced to hide behind the feeder, frozen in fright.
After several long tense minutes the sparrowhawk flew off and the woodpecker at last got a hurried feed, which I am pretty certain gave it indigestion!
A very healthy and brightly plumaged Great Spotted Woodpecker was happily hanging on the peanut feeder when a usurper muscled in. After a few seconds of name calling and some unsocial behaviour the former woodpecker was seen off by the second bird. How very rude!
However, within a few minutes the status changed when a female Sparrowhawk landed on the nearby tree and the usurper was forced to hide behind the feeder, frozen in fright.
After several long tense minutes the sparrowhawk flew off and the woodpecker at last got a hurried feed, which I am pretty certain gave it indigestion!