The Great Spotted Woodpecker

We heard him just outside; he was hammering on the bird table. I started to take pictures with the ipad and was very surprised when he hopped onto this delphinium spike and started to probe between and in the flowers - maybe he thought the central black markings in the flowers were insects. These woodpeckers spend quite a lot of time drilling holes in our old house but we still love to see them, and are amazed that he came so close. (think I may have done something wrong as this bit of film doesn't want to play for me on here; however if you enlarge it you can see the bird on the flower spike quite well)
...and we are still getting this wonderful summer weather, with such beautiful evenings; I have been out late often, and seen the roe deer and the barn owl.