Hi Steve,
Yes, the green woodpeckers are really stunning.They spend most of the time on our lawn, because they eat ants - which we have in huge numbers!
The little owls are always in the garden. Their young seem to enjoy perching on top of our wooden swing and the roof of the gazebo. They were once described to me by an owl expert as the "Football hooligans of the owl world" because they are always up for an argument.They sit and "shout" at us if we walk underneath "their" trees (which means whichever one they have chosen to perch in at the time). To do this, they stand as tall as they can (not very tall!) and make direct eye contact while making a racket.Very comical.The chicks are often raised in a large "bonfire" which we built 12 years ago when we first moved in.(We left it for a few weeks after pruning back some old woody shrubs and weak trees, and things moved into it. It has therefore been left alone and is quite a nature reserve in its own right!). We nearly lost some chicks a few years ago, when the hunt got into the garden and the hounds decided to try to get into the bonfire.Very distressing, but we managed to chase them off.

I love this place.I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.