[TN-Bird] Clash of the Sapsuckers!

From: "Van Harris" <shelbyforester1223@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: tn-birds <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 06:10:20 -0800
 Yesterday, I heard a "thump" at the large window over the sink in my house
in nw Shelby County.  I looked outside, expecting a casualty.  As soon as I
opened the door, a dishelved-looking but healthy Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
flew up from the leaf pile (thankfully, I had not got round to sweeping it
away) on the deck under the window.  As he (she?) gained altitude, another
sapsucker came over the edge of the roof in hot pursuit.  The new arrival
chased the collider across the yard into a Tulip Poplar on the other side of
the fence, screeching all kinds of vicious imprecations.  I grabbed for the
binox just in time to see one bird (presumably the pursuer) grab the other
bya wing and hold it suspended eighty feet off the ground.  The second bird
eventually broke free and flew away into the woods.   I presume that the
window-crasher had originally been pursued by the other right into the
window and that the second had waited until the first recovered to resume
thechase.  Why two Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers would engage in combat,
especially in a wintering area, I cannot imagine.   Van Harris Millington,
TN
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