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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: kokanee on November 24, 2009, 07:20:56 PM

Title: Need help ID'ng the following woodpecker? (GTA)
Post by: kokanee on November 24, 2009, 07:20:56 PM

Hi,

One day earlier this year, we got a visit from the following bird on the tree in our backyard just outside our kitchen window.  He spent about 30 minutes hopping up and down the tree and we were able to open the window a crack and heard it drumming, but I wasn't sure what kind of woodpecker it was.  Is it a juvenile? I haven't seen it since and now I've put up a suet cage and regularly get a downy woodpecker which I could recognize, but I wasn't sure of this one...


(http://outdoorontario.net/Gallery/albums/album20/woodpecker1.jpg)

(http://outdoorontario.net/Gallery/albums/album20/woodpecker2.jpg)

TIA,
Mar

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Post by: Bluffs Birder on November 24, 2009, 07:44:24 PM

Hi,

What you had was a juvenile Yellow-bellied Sapsucker.  Nice photos.  All I'm getting are Raccoons, Squirrels, and House Sparrows at my suet feeder so far.

Walter  :)

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Post by: kokanee on November 25, 2009, 10:48:50 AM

Thanks Walter, yeah that looks like a match.  The only thing I didn't see was the long white stripe/plummage that I see in my ref book. I'd love to see it come back or even an adult version.

At first we were getting the Squirrels at the suet feeder too, but we made a homemade baffle that seems to have kept them away.  Now we get the Black Caps(which seem to eat anything we put out, nyger, black sunflower and the suet), Sparrows, the Downy, and a male and female cardinal.  I had hoped to entice some Blue Jays but they didn't seem interested, just came for the bird bath and our trees.

Thanks again,
Mar

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Post by: mr.sharp-photo on December 03, 2009, 05:19:42 PM

Quote from: "Bluffs Birder"

Hi,

What you had was a juvenile Yellow-bellied Sapsucker.  Nice photos.  All I'm getting are Raccoons, Squirrels, and House Sparrows at my suet feeder so far.

Walter  :)

my suet feeder was up for less than a day. came back in the morning and the entire feeder was gone! raccoons lifted it into the tree, somehow unlatched it and ate it.