A pair of large spotted woodpeckers in Purple Mountain, busy brooding has become a small "net red"

Large spotted woodpecker in the tree

Yangzi Evening News (correspondent Wu Jiamin reporter Mei Jianming) Nanjing Purple Mountain has become a good place for people to climb mountains and relax and exercise, and some birds have also nested here and settled down to breed their descendants. Recently, in a locust forest in Zijin ShanshuiXi, a pair of large spotted woodpeckers busy feeding young chicks attracted bird friends to watch, and for a while they became "net red woodpeckers".

There are many photographers who go to Purple Mountain to photograph woodpeckers, and they patiently grasp the wonderful moments when woodpeckers are busy feeding and feeding with "long guns and short cannons". Some brooding photos of large-spotted woodpeckers have also spread likes in the WeChat circle of friends.

And the big spotted woodpecker also seems to adapt to these photographers, you shoot yours, I'm busy with mine. Bird mother bird father rush busy, you come and go, every 10 minutes from the woods to find a variety of insects that baby birds love to eat, there are beetles, giddings, tianniu larvae, wasps, etc., and sometimes also take pine nuts, thick plums and grass seeds and other plant foods, meat and vegetarian collocation, pay attention to nutrition.

In order to clean the nest, after feeding the baby, the big bird also takes the baby bird's feces out of the nest, and then continues to look for insects in the forest.

After many days of feeding, the feathers of the three small and large spotted woodpeckers have gradually grown and began to emerge from the mouth of the locust tree. According to reports, the large spotted woodpecker is a small bird with a body length of 20 to 25 cm.

In addition, because the species prefers to eat many forest pests, it is known as the "forest doctor" and has been included in the "List of Beneficial Terrestrial Wild Animals Protected by the State or of Important Economic and Scientific Research Value" issued on August 1, 2000.

Author: Mei Jianming

Source: Yangtze Evening News