Birdwatching - 1678 🐦

🦉 The great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major)

📚 Dendrocopos Greek: dendron tree, coptō to hit, beat
📚 major (lat.) large

One day in the middle of July I saw a teenage woodpecker. He first moved up the tree, at the very top he tore off a cone, one might even say threw it down. And then flew to the ground to this cone.

Although this teenager already knew how to feed and search for food on his own, he was still too young and inexperienced to handle cones. He turned her over, looked, tried to peck, but nothing worked.

Everything comes with experience, and I'm sure that later his parents showed him what to do and how to do it.
In the photo, a woodpecker has hollowed out a hole in a tree to conveniently insert a cone there. The so-called "woodpecker's forge".