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Got out early and managed to cross some early birds off my local birds list: wren, long-tailed tit, chaffinch, and, most excitingly, a great-spotted woodpecker and a jay!
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I saw the woodpecker within a minute after leaving the flat, 30 seconds into the park. For the whole rest of the time I was out, friendly folk kept coming up to me to share a bird tip that they'd heard a woodpecker somewhere around.