In our vicinities in Uppsala, and especially in the forest area Lilla Djurgården, there are, as far as I know, only two woodpecker species. The one, and most common, the Great spotted woodpecker, is the most visible and the most heard. But there is also a "gray eminence" that seems much more shy and reluctant to show up - the European green woodpecker. It often stays on the ground where it looks for ants, with its specially adapted, long tongue. But in the evening, as in the picture, it often disappears into a dense spruce.