[birdky] Re: yellow-bellied sapsucker question


ROBERTA . . .
I dealt with this very topic a few weeks ago in "This Week a Hilton Pond." You might want to look at http://www.hiltonpond.org/ThisWeek070215.html 

Best wishes,

BILL

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I have a question for the biologists out there: Do yellow-bellied sapsuckers suck sap? I have been watching them these last few weeks quite a bit at The Arboretum in Lexington. They never hammer loudly like other woodpeckers do; instead, they work the holes they have made by repeatedly inserting their beaks. They sure look like they are sucking sap! I see no evidence of insects gathering around the holes they are working. A colleague suggested they only eat the insects that gather around the sap. I would love to do a little display in our Visitor Center about these guys but I thought I'd ask the experts before I start surfing the web! Thanks! 

Roberta Burnes
Education Coordinator at The Arboretum, Kentucky's State Botanical Garden
Fayette County


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