Showing posts with label Yellow Bellied Sapsucker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yellow Bellied Sapsucker. Show all posts

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Yellow Bellied Sapsucker

Went to Mill Creek Park again today in search of some new birds.  We had a very productive day.  When it was in the tree, I thought it was some variety of woodpecker (which I suppose technically, it is), but when I enlarged and processed the pictures, I discovered it was a Yellow Bellied Sapsucker.  This is a male specimen.

Yellow Bellied Sapsucker

Yellow Bellied Sapsucker
Sapsucker looking straight at the camera

I find that the woodpecker family to be a very attractive bird.  Unfortunately, this is the only angle that I could shoot of this bird, the tail is hidden by the tree.  I found this bird along the road near the "Lily Pond".