Lot of Sapsucker Holes
Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers are medium sized woodpeckers that drill horizontal rows of small holes in a tree trunk (as seen in the picture). As their name suggest, they drink the tree sap, but they don't really "suck it". Instead they lap it up with their tongues.
Other birds will attempt to drink from the sap "faucet", and eat the small insects that become trapped in the sap, but sapsuckers will defend "their trees."
Seen at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary.
Lot of Sapsucker Holes
Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers are medium sized woodpeckers that drill horizontal rows of small holes in a tree trunk (as seen in the picture). As their name suggest, they drink the tree sap, but they don't really "suck it". Instead they lap it up with their tongues.
Other birds will attempt to drink from the sap "faucet", and eat the small insects that become trapped in the sap, but sapsuckers will defend "their trees."
Seen at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary.