The Birds of Pembrokeshire. 4I 
LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER, Dendrocopus minor.—A 
rare occasional visitor. Appears to be even scarcer in the 
county than the preceding species. Sir Hugh Owen has seen it 
at Goodwick. It is included by Mr. H. Mathias in his list, but 
neither this species nor the Great Spotted Woodpecker occurred 
to Mr. Dix. We have never seen it, although we were always 
on the look-out for it in our woods. 
GREEN WOODPECKER, Gecinus viridis—A common resident. 
This is the only common Woodpecker in the county, and has 
been seen by us in all parts of it where there are trees. It is 
very common at Stone Hall, where we always had a nest close 
to the house, and where the cry of the bird was so incessantly 
heard throughout the spring and summer that we ceased to 
regard it as being in any degree a weather sign. Mr. Dix states 
that in his district it was common in the wooded dingles, and 
more so where there are old trees, particularly ash. With us the 
bird generally placed its nest in a decayed sycamore, and we 
were astonished one day at the heat communicated by the 
young birds to the wood when we put our hand on the tree just 
beneath the entrance hole to the nest. Many trees are worked 
upon by the birds before they finally select the site for the nest ; 
they doubtless find some of them harder than they expected, and, 
after boring them to some depth, leave them for a softer and 
more decayed tree. 
WRYNECK, Jjx sorquil/a.—A summer visitor ; rare ; it is very doubt- 
fulif it nests in the county. Only once seen by us at Stone Hall 
in April, when it was evidently only on passage. We have never 
heard the not-to-be-mistaken cry of the Wryneck anywhere in 
the county. We were informed by Mr. Moore, the head-keeper 
at Picton Castle, that he saw the birds there on the fine trees in 
the park during the summer months. If he is correct the birds 
probably nest there. Mr. Dix writes: “I heard this bird for the 
first time on 6th April ; it was not numerous at any time during 
the summer.” The Wryneck is included in Mr. Mathias’ list, 
but Mr. Jefferys has no record of it from the neighbourhood of 
Tenby. 
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