"My Green Woodpeckers are tame enough for me to watch from the conservatory when they come down to the lawn to feed barely ten yards away. They are as pretty as a parrot. Indeed, with the patchwork of green, yellow and red, they outshine the local parrot, the Ring-necked Parakeet. The Green Woodpecker is more than decorative, because it is always worth stopping to watch whay it is doing."