A couple of days or so spent at/around Orielton Field Centre woods provided hopeful signs that green woodpeckers are still in that area. None heard on the first 2-3 days but on Monday 12th at least one (prob two) were yaffling in the vicinity. Also reported recently from the Axton Hill area (not far away).
However, this morning (13th) the male at Stackpole was calling normally but only a couple of hours later things were all so different - see image taken by Chloe Hudson (with me doing work experience) but for the squeamish best not enlarge the image further! A buzzard was flushed from the ground in Warren Strip woodland, having attacked the woodpecker which, with its bill completely smashed up, will not have survived.
So is this the end of the Stackpole Yaffles? Only time will tell!