Woodpeckers In The StillVision Studio Garden

As if the lovely weather wasn't reason enough to avoid doing any portrait photography today, our family of Great Spotted Woodpeckers gave us another! The birds are nesting in the grounds of the StillVision photography portrait studio in Girton and are getting very active as their chick gets ready to fledge. The little chick is really rather sweet poking its head out of the hole and it's remarkable how hard it is making its parents work. Perhaps this is an insight to how hard the Mums and Dads of the babies we see in the portrait studio have to work!

We had no photography appointments in the diary and the sun was shining so we thought we'd try a family portrait session with a difference and set up the camera on the woodpecker nest (very Spring watch) to capture some video footage. For those non-birders, Dad has the red hat on his head and Mum doesn't. Dad is also the one who gets attacked by what must be a VERY hungry chick!

Enjoy...