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I he Yellow-bellied Sapsucker is a kind of woodpecker and all woodpeckers drill or tap on tree trunks and limbs. They obtain their food this way. Only sapsuckers drill holes and drink the accumulated sap. The nest cavity is also constructed by drilling. Besides food getting and next construction, woodpeckers communicate through their measured and systematic drumming. The sapsucker's tapping is erratic; there are often a series of rapid thumps followed by slower, more rhythmic ones. By this irregular tapping, I always know when a sapsucker is at work.
On only two occasions have I known the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker to visit our bird feeder. In McLean, suet regularly drew one of these over-wintering birds during cold, snowy weather. The other y^as in Rectortown. I placed a half-orange on the feeder and a splendid male sapsucker flew in and sipped from the fruit.
It's worth the effort to attract these fine birds to the feeder. What would taste most like tree sap?
John Trott welcomes reader commend at PO. Box 515, Flint Hill. Va. 22627.
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