Yellow-bellied sapsucker

[Barbie Heid]

It must be November, because my yellow-bellied sapsuckers are back. I only see them, a pair, during migration time, two weeks in April and again in November. I'll have to keep trying to get a shot I like of both though; she shows up before dawn and he just before sunset (this is the male). I don't know what they do with the rest of their day.

 

[TomV]

How coincidental. My wife and I were wondering where our sapsuckers were this year as we had none in the spring. However, just today I saw one between me and a neighbor.
I had no camera and thus no proof, you'll have to take my word for it.

 

[Barbie Heid]

How coincidental. My wife and I were wondering where our sapsuckers were this year as we had none in the spring. However, just today I saw one between me and a neighbor.
I had no camera and thus no proof, you'll have to take my word for it.

This is only the second year, after living here almost 20, that I've ever had them in my yard.