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Dick Coombes

The return of Great Spotted Woodpeckers

Great Spotted Woodpecker in flight

Over the last five years woodland on Ireland’s east coast has started to reverberate with the drumming of a very welcome blow-in. This feature documenting that recolonisation was first published in the October 2013 edition of Bird Watching magazine in the UK. Ireland is home to some truly fantastic wildlife….