Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Workshop 2026
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Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Workshop – 7-8 March 2026
Wildwood Trust, Wealden Forest Park, Canterbury Road, Herne, Kent CT6 7LQ
Organised for Woodpecker Network volunteers and professionals from conservation organisation.
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Workshop March 2025
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Woodpecker Network was pleased to organise a workshop to discuss the monitoring and conservation of the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker on 19th March 2025. Understanding the drivers and arresting the decline of the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker is a nationally high conservation priority.
March 2025 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker update
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Lesser Spots are most active in March and April, calling, drumming and displaying. So a sunny morning now is the best time to find them.
So far this year LesserSpotNet volunteers have recorded LSW in Dartmoor and Exmoor, The Quantocks, New Forest, West and East Sussex, North Kent Blean woods complex, Essex, Berkshire, Derbyshire, the Wyre Forest and more.
Kent Ornithological Society are carrying out a county wide Lesser Spot survey with good results so far, see their website for more details.
Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers 2024 Report
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Sadly 2024 has been one of the poorest breeding seasons for Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers since Woodpecker Network was started in 2015. Only eleven nests were found, some at a very late stage and, on average, only just over one young fledged per nest. This is probably not enough to sustain the population. Read the full 2024 report
Is that a Lesser Spotted or Great Spotted Woodpecker in your garden?
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Don't get confused! At this time of year, if you see a Woodpecker with a bright red cap in your garden, it will be a young Great Spotted Woodpecker not a Lesser Spot.
This photo shows an adult male Great Spot with its youngster, note the young Great Spot has a bright red cap.
Note that Great Spots have long white shoulder patches and red unter the tail, Lesser Spots do not have these and are much smaller.