Nice pix Mucks
I think I saw a woodpecker for the first time ever only recently. I was waiting on the train station platform and wondered what this knocking noise was.
I eventually noticed, on a steep slope raising from the opposite platform, a woodpecker at the top of a tree peck peck pecking away. Fascinating.
Also on that slope there's a couple of foxes, I often see them strutting about, cocky as anything, they just stare at me sometimes.
While we be on the subject, I've only ever once seen an owl in the wild. It was in 1981 when I was working on a pipeline and we were going past Shoreham village in Kent. I wandered into the woods for a Gypsy's, found a clearing and whilst I was tending to things I became aware of a sensation of being watched.
When I turned round, there, not twelve feet from me sitting on a branch, was an owl. Huge eyes, head moving slowly from side to side, looking at me. I must have stayed still and looked at it for a full five minutes. Great stuff.
But, as I said, only time I've ever seen an owl in the wild.
I suppose that's nothing to country folk but to this City Boy it was quite novel