1:00 AM – Chickadee and Titmouse, the two most fearless birds.
The Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, like all the other woodpeckers, likes these compressed insects.
Tag Archives: Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Sunday – 1.6.2019
1:00 AM – Yellow-rumped Warbler on the new Trailcam platform
Here’s a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker:
Sunday – 12.30.2018
1:00 AM – Nice Dark-eyed Junco.
Sapsucker on the compressed bug cylinder:
Thursday – 11.29.2018
1:00 AM – Cardinals and Finches usually get along, but in this video a male Cardinal routes a Purple Finch. In the background, along the rail, there are at least one other male Cardinal, possibly two. That’s a lot of male Cardinals. I suspect that many Cardinals crowded out the Bluebirds. Maybe.
This Yellow Bellied Sapsucker likes the compressed bug cylinder. These birds look almost exactly like the Red Bellied Woodpecker, but the markings are different, if you know where to look. After he flies off, a Pine Warbler and Nuthatch take over.
Friday – 11.2.2018
1:00 AM – The Yellow-bellied Sapsucker sticks pretty much to the compressed cylinder feeders. They look very much like the Red-bellied Woodpecker, but the two red patches, on throat and head (for the males), distinguishes them. Also, of course, the yellowish belly.
Here’s a little Downy Woodpecker:
Thursday – 3.29.2018
1:00 AM – Here’s a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. We haven’t seen one of these for a few months. They’re obviously a close relative of the Red-bellied Woodpecker. You can tell the difference by the long white stripe on the edge of the wing, and the red markings on the top of the head, and the throat (for males).
Bluebirds, followed by a Yellow-rumped Warbler, on the mealworm feeder.
Male Cardinal on the mealworm feeder.
Friday – 3.2.2018
1:00 AM – A nice variety of traffic on the platform. Red-bellied Woodpecker and Cardinal, then a Blue Jay, all nice big colorful birds.
Here’s the large and small on the compressed seed cylinder. A Yellow-bellied Sapsucker and a Carolina Chickadee.
Mockingbird having a mealworm snack.
Tuesday – 2.27.2018
1:00 AM – We still have the Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers around, but the only place they feed is on the compressed seed cylinder. Now that the Cylinder Cam is back up, we’re getting videos. Unfortunately, they’re so big it’s hard to get a good image of them.
Three birds in this video – the Tufted Titmouse is most prominent, drinking from the bath. When he flies away, we see a small Finch, also drinking. Meanwhile, there’s a Red-bellied Woodpecker on the Squirrel Buster feeder in the background.
Saturday – 1.20.2018
3:53 AM – Variety of birds on the cylinder feeder, including Cardinal, Downy Woodpecker, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Mockingbird, Bluebird and Squirrel. Notice the squirrel giving up after a few bites. Pepper seed works, usually.
Plus one more cylinder bird, this one a Pine Warbler. He’s about the same color as some whole hard-boiled egg yolks I’ve seen.
Wednesday – 12.27.2017
4:02 AM – Brief video close-up of the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker.
The birds are getting used to us. Here’s a White-breasted Nuthatch landing on the platform feeder, while I’m sitting a few feet away. It was cold and I had a poncho on.
One more, to make up for the brevity of the first two clips. Here’s a Cardinal and a Dark-eyed Junco feeding. Nothing exciting happens. It’s that way a lot of the time with the birds. They just eat, excrete and flap around, mostly. Every now and then they squabble. That’s life in the wild.