#spechtschmiede

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A clever woodpecker – a great spotted woodpecker at work in his anvil. An anvil is a kind of workshop, here a hole on a branch into which the bird has pressed a pine cone to get to the seeds.

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Sometimes you see small mountains of pine cones in the forest under deciduous trees. A look upwards (how I did it today) can solve the mystery: Here a woodpecker is fixing pine cones in a gap in an old branch to get the seeds.