12:01 AM – The Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers are still with us. Not sure how many, but at least one male and one female. Here’s one making a good sized dent in the compressed seed cylinder.
This Mockingbird finds a prize in the seed cylinder.
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Wednesday – 12.20.2017
12:10 AM – Catching up with the Bluebirds, we find them doing what they usually do – eating. In the first part of the video there’s one on the platform feeder. This is not their usual hangout lately, but I think there were a few mealworms in the mix. That will attract them. In the second part, they’re at their usual feeding station.
More about the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. Here we can see the pale yellow belly, and the bold white stripe down the wing. The stripe, along with the red patch on top of the head – not behind the head, like the Downy – are good ways to identify him. In addition, the male has a red throat patch.
Monday – 12.18.2017
2:59 AM – Our first video of the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. It’s not a great clip, but it does show the red patches on the neck and top-of-head that marks the male Sapsucker. Obviously they’re related to the woodpeckers we already have in the yard. By the way – his belly isn’t yellow.
We don’t see the Cardinals on the mealworm feeder too much, but every now and then one will stop by for a snack, often when the platform feeder is empty.
We moved a camera over to the cylinder feeder, hoping to get a video of the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker we saw the other day – the first one ever. (And we did – see above). We did get this one of a Downy Woodpecker.