Grey-headed Woodpecker working a tree trunk by Lars Edenius published on 2019-01-04T09:57:02Z 3 January 2019 I spent a morning at a baiting site in pursuit of recording calls from White-tailed and/or Golden Eagle in northern Sweden. Three different Grey-headed Woodpeckers frequented the site, spending most of their time working on pieces of pig tallow nailed to tree trunks in the surroundings. A piece of tallow was attached to a pine stem at which I had placed my microphones. One can hear a woodpecker fly in and land, working its way up the trunk towards the mic. The woodpecker came very close, but I guess it decided that the metallic surface of the mic made it bad food. At 05:58 a cracking tree trunk scares the woodpecker. Northern Ravens can be heard calling and flying around. Robertsfors commune, Västerbotten County (64.06N/20.30E) Sennheiser MKH 8020s, Sound Devices MixPre-3 recorder, gain setting +55dB, 80 Hz low cut filter, no post-processing Genre Ambient Comment by Veljo Runnel What a superclose encounter! Fascinating! 2019-03-27T14:59:21Z Comment by Nature Sound World - moved to Spotify Excellent recording! 2019-01-08T20:33:31Z Comment by World-Sounds.org Amazing! Incredible to hear this so close. The pecking sounds so precise at this proximity! 2019-01-04T10:28:02Z Comment by Andrus Kannel Fantastic recording. 2019-01-04T10:17:19Z Comment by Andrus Kannel Veeery nice. 2019-01-04T10:09:45Z