But all sapsuckers may be known by their pale yellowish under parts, and by the work they leave behind.
The sapsuckersdrill lines of holes sometimes around and sometimes up and down the tree-trunk, but almost always in rings or belts about the trunk or branches.
Nest: Yellow-bellied sapsuckersusually nest in cavities in snags or live trees with rotten heartwood.
The feeding patterns of sapsuckers on ponderosa pine in northeastern California.
Like all the Sapsuckers and the other woodpeckers, the sense of hearing is well developed and it is usually very difficult to approach them without detection.
These Sapsuckers are watchful and devoted parents and cases have been reported where the mother bird has been easily captured because of her refusal to leave her young.
This is what the Sapsucker seeks, and upon this alone he can live all summer, as proved by Mr. Frank Bolles, who tells us how he caught and kept young Sapsuckers alive till October, feeding them only on diluted maple syrup.
Then in the fall come again the sapsuckers to the tree, remorselessly driving hole after hole through the still untouched segments of its circle of life.
The stub commands a view of the Savings's orchard, where, Victor says, the Sapsuckers do immense damage, especially to the pear trees.
This is unfortunate, for I am sure downy woodpeckers have done much more good than sapsuckers have done harm.
When feeding their young, sapsuckers are true flycatchers, getting the insects while on the wing.
The cowbirds and yellow-bellied sapsuckers who do not sing wished to do something, too.
The cowbirds offered to keep the flies and other insects off of the victuals, and the sapsuckers agreed to give tapping signals from their high places in the tall trees whenever a change of program was to be announced.
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