Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
“As for noteworthy mentionings, it sure has been a great fall for Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers spotting’s. In fact, it’s the best fall in the last four years according to my records.”
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Other notables include: Surf and White-winged Scoters have arrived just offshore, a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, two Northern Parula’s and a female Nashville Warbler playing hide-and-go-seek, and one of my most favorite adaptable dwellers of our forestlands ,a single chattering Carolina wren.
Additionally, I recorded seeing 12 Swamp sparrows and not one but two Yellow bellied sapsuckers.
On the last day of September, I arrived home to find a Yellow-bellied sapsucker and a Red eyed Vireo in a Crab apple tree.
As for noteworthy mentionings, it sure has been a great fall for Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers spotting’s. In fact, it’s the best fall in the last four years according to my records.
Although I technically just missed having a five woodpecker day, the following morning I happened upon a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker along the forest fringes of our property.
Other birds of note spotted this day were a Least Flycatcher, and a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker.
Additional, noteworthy mentionings from the last two weeks across Cape Elizabeth include – several Yellow bellied Sapsuckers (woodpeckers) in orchard trees and maple trees.
On November 20 I came across two southbound stragglers - a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker and a Norther Flicker, both in the same crab apple tree!
Other noteworthy mentioning’s: On March 18 I spotted an unusually early male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker perched upright on an old red maple tree.
This same day seven Northern Flickers and a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker also had brief stop overs on our property.
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Just beyond in a Crab apple tree a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, a Hairy and a Downy Woodpecker exchanged pleasantries.
Other observations include significant numbers of Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers and Ruby-crowned Kinglets passing through.
Migratory woodpeckers such as the Northern Flicker and Yellow-bellied Sapsucker numbers peak in April as do Brown Creepers, Eastern Phoebes, Winter Wrens, Brown Thrashers, White-throated Sparrows, Swamp Sparrows, and fleeting pass through migrants like Fox Sparrows and “Ipswich” Savanah Sparrows.
Additionally, on October 9 I noted a first of season Yellow-bellied Sapsucker.
Also, in the second week of October I noted a few Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers (woodpeckers) in orchard and Maple trees around town.
Also, on October 13 in the yard I noted a sallying Eastern Phoebe and a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker hunting for insects in an old crab apple tree.