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Sphyrapicus varius
About the size of a robin. This guy doesn't always find a tree; he often rat-a-tat-tats on our metal chimney... at the crack of dawn... sound a bit like a machine gun going off in my room! Beauty to look at though.
Diverse woods near a small lake.
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology description of the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker: "...Bold black-and-white stripes curve from the face toward a black chest shield and white or yellowish underparts..." And there it is. Thanks Courtney!
According the the Audubon guide, the yellow-bellied and the red naped commonly hybridize..
He does look like a male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker... except the whole yellow-bellied thing. :P
There was a another ring around the tree about a half foot higher too, but I felt I needed to crop it a bit.
Spotted on May 15, 2010
Submitted on Aug 30, 2012
