Middle spotted woodpecker

[arquebus]

Last week I was on a trip to Poland, visiting the area around the Białowieża National Park. The main purpose of the trip was to photograph the Visent or European Bison, but there were lots of interesting birds to photograph as well. One bird that I saw for the very first time was the Middle spotted Woodpecker. It does not exist in Norway where I live and I don't think it exists in UK either. It looks very much like the Great spotted Woodpecker, but it has a bright red hood instead of the red spot in the neck that the Great spotted Woodpecker has.


Canon EOS 5D Mark IV + Canon EF 600mm f/4L IS III USM + 2x converter 1/160s, f/8, ISO 3200


Canon EOS 5D Mark IV + Canon EF 600mm f/4L IS III USM 1/640s, f/4, ISO 2500


Canon EOS 5D Mark IV + Canon EF 600mm f/4L IS III USM - 1/400s, f/4, ISO 3200


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Last photo is just to show the difference between the Great spotted Woodpecker (left) and the Middle spotted Woodpecker (right)

[Trev B]

Nice set Arquebus

[tigerburnie]

Nice set indeed

[CasaRova]

Very nice . The last photo is lovely.

[Stan]

very nice shots and the side by side shows there is not a lot of difference between the two

[leeperry]

Lovely set Svein

[Bill53]

Great set.

Bill.

[arquebus]

Thank you guys, I appreciate your comments!