Begging calls from fledged young

Woodpeckers

Great Spotted Woodpecker

Greater Spotted Woodpecker

Three-toed and Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers

Great spotted woodpecker nestlings can be heard far and wide in early June. Quite monotonous but after one minute they finally get food from their parents.

Begging calls of great spotted woodpecker

Lots of young woodpeckers around this time of year. In my garden I heard a quite rare call, two young lesser spotted woodpeckers were begging for food and kept one parent very busy. At same time I saw two young great spotted woodpeckers and one young green woodpecker. Backyard garden at its best! 20 June 2022 Håga, Uppsala.

Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (young)

Two goshawks fledglings begging for food. They were still in the vicinity of the nest. My neighbour is not that keen on having them breeding close by since he has a pigeon house... Nåsten, Uppsala. 17 July 2022

Goshawk fledglings begging for food

A typical garden soundscape all through July in Uppsala. Family groups of great tits, blue tits and nuthatches tour the garden's apple trees and you can hear the constant begging calls of the young tits. 30 July 2022, Håga, Uppsala.

Begging calls of tits and nuthatches

Less than one km from home I suddenly heard three sparrowhawks begging for food (uncannily similar to the nestlings of long-eared owl). How could I have missed this nest throughout the year?

Sparrowhawk fledglings begging

This time of year lots of strange calls can be heard from passerine fledglings. This call made me wonder what it was but after a while I saw the parents: wood warbler! Nåsten, Uppsala. 30 July 2022

Wood warbler begging calls

To hear the young nestlings begging for food like this must be stressful (at least from my anthropocentric perspective). Kvarnbo, Uppland. June 19, 2023.

Stressful to be a Lesser Spotted Woodpecker parent!

Field sound recordist and archivist of vanishing sounds in natural Iandscapes. Highly commended in the Sound of the Year Awards 2024 - Best Natural Sound.

Stressful to be a Lesser Spotted Woodpecker parent!

Bo Söderström