Golden Crowned Kinglets with a sweet tooth
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Golden Crowned Kinglets with a sweet tooth

cosmo3667

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Noted quite a few Kinglets on a tree and they were for a lack of a better term licking the sap leaking from the tree. In one location the sap was dripping from beneath the limb and they would postion themselves under it to catch the sap droplet. On other locations they would peck and "lick" at the location. Anyone else see this before?

Scoping out a good location to land


Catching a sap dripping


Dropping in to get in on the action


A hole possibly from a woodpecker caused the wound to ooze sap out a popular location for the Kinglets to return to often.


couple getting in on the action


Getting some from split in the branches
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mac1958

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Nice captures. It must have been entertaining to watch them.
« Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 07:00:00 PM by Guest »