Great Spotted Woodpecker
£25.00
A lot of lies about Great Spotted Woodpeckers, from the ‘Lies About Birds’ series. (Scroll down to read the text.) Illustrated with a poor photograph of a paper bird I have made out of old RSPB magazines.
A4 print, mounted (and put in a cellophane bag to prevent escapes).
(Please note that, regretfully, I don’t send work outside of the UK.)
1 in stock
“Great Spotted Woodpeckers are made of magnets. Trees, as we know, are made of metal. Great Spotteds like to swoop carelessly around woodland believing themselves to be gifted with elegance, but this often ends in them finding themselves inelegantly and suddenly stuck to the side of a tree.
Not particularly large and not what you’d call spotty, the name instead describes their role as the more often ‘spotted’ of the black and white woodpeckers – the Great and Lesser Spotted. Great Spotted therefore have to perform noisy, attention-seeking behaviour all the time such as rushing up and down tree-trunks (while stuck to them) and lots of loud drumming. They consequently have a reputation as irritable birds as they are repeatedly surprised by trees, and frequently quite tired.”
