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Discussion => General Discussions => Topic started by: mr.sharp-photo on April 19, 2011, 03:47:38 PM

Title: Saw my 1st yellow-bellied sapsucker today (but it was dead)
Post by: mr.sharp-photo on April 19, 2011, 03:47:38 PM

Posting this because I *think* that some board members may taxiderm dead birds and because its the first time that i knowingly have seen a yellow bellied sapsucker.

it was on hwy 7 near Bathurst in a strip mall. thinking that it flew into the glass.

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Post by: dbellilo on April 19, 2011, 04:32:25 PM

Ha!
The only time I ever saw a YBS (dumb abbreviation) he was dead too! What a coincidence. I saw mine a few years ago at the foot of one of the Bay St. bank buildings...
Live birds are better, eh, Richard?

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Post by: angieinto on April 19, 2011, 05:26:19 PM

Thankfully I saw my first one alive, and last  May at Queens Park. It's actually a great park for migratory birds during the month of May.

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Post by: dbellilo on April 19, 2011, 11:04:50 PM

Funny enough, as I was just looking over some pictures from last Fri. at High Park, I came upon a faraway picture of what I thought (at the time) was a female hairy woodpecker...a closer zoom in reveals...wait for it...a yellow-bellied sapsucker! Alive and well in a high tree. A horrendous photo, but who gives a care? Nice bird!

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Post by: mr.sharp-photo on April 20, 2011, 06:48:11 AM

Quote from: "dbellilo"

Funny enough, as I was just looking over some pictures from last Fri. at High Park, I came upon a faraway picture of what I thought (at the time) was a female hairy woodpecker...a closer zoom in reveals...wait for it...a yellow-bellied sapsucker! Alive and well in a high tree. A horrendous photo, but who gives a care? Nice bird!

its funny because yesterday, i thought "i have no idea how i would be able to ID a YBSS. So I'll probably never see one." sure enough, i saw a beautiful male...but they aren't so pretty when they're sleeping on their backs. :(

The address is 330 Hwy East. Already had one poster contact me. if he doesn't pick it up, then PM me if you want details. I assume that no one's going to throw it out.

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Post by: Rob'in'To on April 20, 2011, 09:58:55 AM

I saw my first one ever last Spring in Lambton.  I didn't know what it was for much of the time viewing it, just knew it was different...  eventually I figured it out.

Yes, Spring migration.  FLAP will be busy.   :(