| It catches insects in flight and uses sapsucker holes to feed on sap and insects attracted to the sap. |
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| Our latest visitor, number 138, was a woodpecker, a yellow-bellied sapsucker. |
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| But by far the most fascinating character of this group was the red-breasted sapsucker. |
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| They also visit sapsucker holes and feed on sap and insects attracted to the holes. |
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| Then I heard the red-head chattering and the plaintive mew of the sapsucker. |
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| Red-naped Sapsuckers are the most common sapsucker in deciduous and streamside forests, especially in and around aspen, cottonwood, and willow. |
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| They pierce the base of a flower to get at the nectar, and visit woodpecker and sapsucker holes for tree sap. |
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| A small woodpecker flew into a tree above me, and when I saw its slender profile and long bill, I thought it must be a sapsucker. |
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| Immature birds have been observed eating sap from sapsucker holes in trees. |
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| They also feed on sap from sapsucker holes, berries, nuts, seeds, and suet. |
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| They also eat other insects and some fruit, and they visit sapsucker wells to feed on the sap. |
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| I obtained sap only when my incisions were made within 0.5 cm above active sapsucker holes, and then only after sapsuckers had access to my holes for a few hours. |
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| There is a muted hush, broken only by the sound of an occasional sparrow, raptor, raven or sapsucker. |
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| They also eat sap from sapsucker holes or from holes they themselves have drilled and also some fruit, flower nectar, seeds, and insects, especially flying ants. |
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| The Ruby-throated Hummingbird is often seen gently buzzing a sapsucker in the expectation of being led to another food source. |
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| And he'd roar with laughter over the yellow-bellied sapsucker, which is a real bird name, but he thought it was a scream of a name. |
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| Shigo found a correlation between the scars and decay resulting from yellow-bellied sapsucker damage and the occurrence of ring shake. |
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| Up in the frozen tundra of the northern Bronx, some creatures were stirring, yes, but not the yellow-bellied sapsucker that Christopher Lyons was looking for. |
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| In a nod to the name, there is a small picture of a yellow-bellied sapsucker on the back wall, overshadowed by large Audubon prints on other walls. |
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| He talked not only about the squirrels and yellow-bellied sapsucker woodpeckers that frequent backyards, but also about where the limestone and brownstone on the buildings came from. |
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| The feeling a birder gets from glimpsing a yellow-bellied sapsucker is probably no different from the thrill a model obsessive gets glimpsing Elise Crombez, the Belgian catwalk star du jour. |
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| At the other extreme, the cavities made by the yellow-bellied sapsucker are much smaller, and can offer shelter to the red squirrel and northern flying squirrel. |
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| And we got the pewee and the sapsucker and the chestnut-sided warbler. |
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| The blue jay was having a fit, and the sapsucker perked his bright-eyed little head at him not more than a dozen feet away. |
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| During one count Strycker saw a yellow-bellied sapsucker, not common in these parts. |
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| Another critter that is pesky but usually not lethal is the yellow-bellied sapsucker. |
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| Baldwin even saw a yellow-bellied sapsucker at the end of the hike. |
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| One of the most strongly migratory woodpeckers, the Red-naped Sapsucker travels as far south as central Mexico for the winter. |
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