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RE: Yellow-bellied sapsucker on a tree
Very nice photo. I'm surprised you could get that close to him.
And no, I didn't know that about the woodpecker's tongue.
Very nice photo. I'm surprised you could get that close to him.
And no, I didn't know that about the woodpecker's tongue.
I'd have gotten much closer if I weren't with a group of preschoolers who don't know how to approach quietly and calmly!
But it was surprising at the time, too—how close we were able to get. It let us get about 10 feet away when it was down closer to the ground. Here, you can see it had scurried up the tree a bit to get away (plus I have a 30x zoom on my phone camera, which makes it seem that I'm closer than I probably was at the moment I snapped the pic).
I like to think it was pretty curious about us; that cocked head sort of makes the photo for me.