Laced Woodpecker cleaning out its nest hole

“This female Laced Woodpecker (Picus vittatus) looks like she’s cleaning out a used nest hole. Unlike the barbet in my other clip, she’s not chiseling the wood but just removing the flakes from inside the hole. Unless of course, the drilling had been done earlier and I happened to see only this later part of the nest hole-creation…”

Lena Chow
Singapore
17th February 2011