Green Woodpecker (Picus viridis). Copyright 2009 Peter Drury<br />
These birds are very timid and will fly off usually well before you get close. The flight is a rapid burst of wing beats, a closed wing glide where obviously height is lost, followed by another rapid burst of wing beats. In flight photography is difficult. Whilst this is far from a good image, I have kept it because it displays this movement at take-off and also shows the yellow rump which is all you normally see when the bird flies off in the distance!