Breeding Three-toed Woodpeckers

A trip to the forest after work tonight was rewarded with finding nesting Three-toed Woodpeckers Picoides tridactylus (N=tretåspett) in a hole in an aspen tree which had been spared when much of the area was clear-felled last year. I could hear the young birds calling from about 800 metres away, and that made them very easy to find.

Male Three-toed Woodpecker

Note the long tongue, typical for woodpeckers

Female with food for young

Another view of the female

A juvenile looks out of the hole as mum arrives with food