99% Of The UK Won't Have Seen One, so i went searching 

i see lesser spotted woodpeckers almost every year in my backyard in Poland this video make me even more appreciate meeting with the smallest woodpecker across the Europe

tree creepers absolutely trolling. brilliant video man!

Wow! They look like a lot like the downy woodpeckers here in the US--same size too! Except they're our most abundant woodpecker because they love small trees that are commonly planted in suburbs to replace deforestation. They are also one of the few species that can learn to feed from your hand, too. I have fed dozens of downies from my hand! I'm going to the UK and I'd love to see these little woodpeckers, but I doubt I'll have time to make a stop there.

a lesser spotted woodpecker lives in the tree behind my house (hampshire UK).. it makes a very distinct noise and is very friendly.

Never seen a woodpecker. Heard one once. The other day I saw two very interesting birds, never seen them before. They were grey partridges. It's amazing what wildlife we have

Had one of the lesser spotted woodpeckers on my bird feeder last week, eating suet balls. Had no idea what it was and used google to work it out. Live in the countryside and often see green ones. Get too many Magpies, Pigeons, Crows (Jackdaws too) and they’re a nuisance as they decimate the food and scare off the smaller birds. Love all the Finches - anything colourful. We also get many Yellowhammers here and until I started the feeder had never seen or heard of them! The bravest birds seem to be the Blue Tits and Great Tits who often let me get close without flying off.

My dads a complete bird nut. He was into hunting too. Back in the 80’s my dad and his buddy were out hunting and my dad saw a little lesser spotted woodpecker. He pointed it out to his buddy who wasnt much of a bird guy asked my dad if he should shoot it. I think my dad was on the verge of shooting him 😂

I’m in Hampshire and I have a lesser spotted woodpecker that is visiting my feeder daily 😍

Your enthusiasm is contagious! So happy that you took us birding with you!

I've seen all three of our Woodpeckers and Jays too in my garden in Sussex.

Saw my First a few years back at Pulborough Brooks RSPB during winter time which is best time to see as most of the 🍃 have fallen. ❤

Loved this, Brandon Marsh is a great place, that tiny woodpecker is one to add to my list 😊

Mega f*cking jealous… this is something I really want to see. I’ve tried a couple of times, however they are really sulky and don’t seem to have regular ranges until breeding comes around. Btw I want to recommend a few potential animal anomalies- 1. Black redstart, have around 50- individuals in the UK. 2. Black winged stilts, a couple breed every years in the UK- only around 10-15 come to the UK every year. 3. Bee eaters, they bred for the second time in quarry in Norfolk last year. 4. Ruddy shelduck, ruddy duck, red crested pochard- all introduced birds that have been becoming more common. 5. Stone curlews, spotted quake, corn crake- all rare breeding birds in the UK- sadly they have all seemed to suffer a decline due to loss of habitat. 6. Red legged falcons- one of the most magnificent falcons, around 30 can be seen in the UK every year. 7. This ones more for winter- red necked, black necked and Slavonian grebes are all wintering grebes here in the UK- they are all extremely rare in the UK however they do end up in reservoirs and at certain times can be seen there for several months at a time. 8. Goshawk, honey buzzards- both extremely rare birds of prey that breed in small numbers in the UK. 9. Turtle doves and nightingales both rare breeding birds that have had their number decrease drastically. 10. Collared doves, Cetti’s warblers, little egrets, cattle egrets, great egrets, Med gulls, spoonbills- all birds that weren’t breeding in the UK until relatively recently.

Last week i spotted a lesser spotted woodpecker on my tree in my garden, got great pics and videos of it too, what a spectacular bird!

During covid I used to go on a walk past a inner city wild wooded area. I am not a bird spotter but suddenly there were up to eight lesser spotted woodpeckers. When I arrived home I did a search and remembering the markings which were very distinct and discovered they were lesser spotted woodpeckers. I can only assume they were fledglings that were leaving the nest. During covid there seemed to be more bird activity even near previously busy roads. This made my day. I have since moved but always remember that remarkable sight. How can you feel down when surrounded by God’s creation. The sighting was at the wooded copse in the cemetery on Lightbowne Road, Manchester M40. I had no idea they were rare and did not report the sighting.

I love the size comparison!

Nice video! Spotted one just last week at the Risley Moss.

Y'all have a beautiful assortment of woodpeckers. New sub...great presentation! looking forward to seeing more great videos.

Great content as always! The lesser spotted woodpecker reminds me of the downy woodpeckers over here in the US, except instead of being the rarest woodpecker they're the most common lol.

Stroking one yesterday hit our window in upton upon severn got some lovley close up pics of it was beautifull to see kept it warm and put it under hedge next morning it flew off needed some rest after hitting the window.

Omg! Ur vid jist came up so i thought if the green woodpecker would be on the list.....Its so rare & i saw 1 b4 i knew 1❤❤& most brightest ❤❤& largest ❤❤Feeling blessed 🎉Thanks

seen them inthe willows on the side of the stream at the farm i grew up on at wokingham Berkshire UK

Lovely footage 👏

The weirdest thing ever... The only place that I have consistently seen a LSW is in a different Brandon. In Norfolk! They nest there every year, it's just a short walk from Brandon village and it's called Santon Downham. You should check it out some time, they also have Goshawks, Stone curlews, Nightjars and TurtleDoves. Just a short drive away they have crossbills.

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FYI it's GREAT Spotted Woodpecker and not GREATER.

I loved this video so much. You'll be giving Chris Packham a run for his money. 😊

I experience this emotion and frustration every time I plan a trip to see LSW's. I have been searching for 20 years and I have seen just one!! 😢

I see them in our local church yard and have photographed them several times , I cought one at Brandon marsh also.

I have parakeets where I love started a couple now there's easily 50 plus green with orange beek

Hi cookie where I live near vassal Park / Snuff Mills Fishponds is a great place for Green woodpecker and greater spotted woodpecker. the lesser Spotted Woodpecker down in Colyton East Devon. You name it east Devon got them all. Walk along the river collie East Devon you won't be disappointed.

Where I grew up on the north Downs in Kent . My local woods was a breeding area. At least a few pairs. That was late 80s are there any in Hartley Woods now?

Well, Cookie, hes only gone and done it again lol,, WTG,,,, Stunning footage

Wait you dont have Middle Spotted Woodpeckers and Black Woodpeckers in Britain? I never realized that, kinda more thankful for them now. I only saw a Lesser Spotted Woodpecker one time, near my friends home, it was a female with a black head, so I still gotta find a male. Greater Spotted is a regular visitor in our garden, Black Woodpeckers are quite abundant in my home area, but hard to photograph, Green Woodpeckers are all over the Parks in Frankfurt and I also saw Middle Spotted Woodpeckers two times already, but that Lesser Spotted Woodpecker male is on my list for this year. The Grey-headed Woodpecker eluded me completly, but maybe I get Lucky this year. Near the Alps we also got White-backed and Eurasian Three-toed Woodpeckers, but I never went there. Nice that you found it, awesome video man, you kinda inspired me to start looking for animals and film them here, the videos are in german tho, but we already got mouflons and next are European Bison, which are pretty hard, because theres only one herd living free in Germany and trying to locate them is nearly impossible 😅but we keep trying until we found them

We get them every year outside our window but we do live in a wooded area .

props to you for doing all of that without binoculars lol

Come over to my neck of the woods...I literally see lesser spotted woodpeckers in a tree outside my kitchen window regularly!

I’d love to see you do a finding a pine marten video those things are great

Your videos keep getting better and better! Loved the details and narration as well as the content.

I have had both the green and greater spotted woodpeckers in my garden, nice to see

You should bring John along some other adventures! He seemed like a nice fella! :)

Just in case you weren't aware, the Great spotted is Great, not Greater.

Saw one of these in Manchester last month

I have saw one in Birmingham about 2006.

Let be honest the find the phone was a bit stupid, if you put same colours on it as the woodpecker it would have been easier. But get your point

That was the friendliest Canada Goose I have ever seen.

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Ive actually held a wild spotted woodpecker in my hand

Maybe you could try turning down your ISO, when you point to the sky

I’ve seen the greater spotted woodpecker in my garden and saw a green wood pecker in the grounds of the school I work in and a colleague from work had a lesser spotted wood pecker in her house x

I’ve never seen a greater spotted but I’ve seen a green and once years ago I think I was around 5 and I saw one in my grandparents garden

Where I live in uk Surrey There’s this bird I’ve near seen one before it’s white with a long neck and with yellow feet always hunting in the waters would you know what it would be ?

I totally spotted the phone

1:56 sure that was a GCHQ advert/test. If you spotted that you now work on satellite imagery

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I had no idea that the lesser was that rare. Or that small. By a strange coincidence, James blunt is also 15 centimeters tall...

The green woodpeckers regularly visit my lawn in search of eartworms - "big noises", nice sound, but the black woodpecker's cry is second to none.

I've seen one!

I think your population estimate of 1000 is a little pessimistic; I've read some statements by experts recently that argue that lesser spots are under recorded in the UK due to being very hard to find, as well as the fact that much of their suitable habitat (such as the woodlands in Herefordshire where I am from) is very under watched. Perhaps this can be a basis for some naive optimism, but also a good reason for us to go looking for them! There is an excellent UK wide group called the Lesser Spot Network which helps co ordinate surveys for the species.

I often hear woodpeckers pecking and then think of the Predator film as I'm surrounded by trees and it sounds similar. How do they not get brain damage?

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i refuse to believe any one spotted the phone

i wouldnt use the word "hunting"