{"id":11107,"date":"2014-07-15T13:21:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T20:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11107"},"modified":"2014-07-17T12:04:02","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T19:04:02","slug":"sapsucker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11107","title":{"rendered":"Sapsucker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11108\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11108\" class=\"wp-image-11108\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/rednapedsapsucker100609as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"280\" height=\"420\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11108\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&nbsp;<br \/>Male Red-naped Sapsucker, 2010<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For a week I have been visited by sapsuckers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Early one morning a week ago, I first heard and then spotted two sapsuckers on a utility pole, but managed a picture of only one of them before they both flew off. That bird, posted to <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11013\">recent birds<\/a>\u00a0and reproduced below, is a male now identified as a Red-naped Sapsucker. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since that time, I have heard a sapsucker a half-dozen times but only managed a few more pictures, always of a female Red-naped (one of which is below).<\/p>\n<p>The odd thing about this is that sapsuckers drill holes in trees and then sip the sap that flows. Certainly,\u00a0that is how I have seen them before, as in the shot of a male working his way around\u00a0a mountain ash (on the right). This time the sapsuckers seemed to confine themselves to the utility pole, something that clearly lacks sap. They were probably drumming on it to communicate, rather than feed.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first sapsucker (male) seen a week ago.<br \/>Its partner went unrecorded at the time.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11022\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/rednapedsapsucker140706s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is one of a\u00a0few pictures of the female captured over the subsequent week as it hammered on the pole. Although it was primarily in the shade, there was a moment when shifting leaves allowed sunlight on its red crown.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11109\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/rednapedsapsuckerF140712s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; For a week I have been visited by sapsuckers.\u00a0 Early one morning a week ago, I first heard and then spotted two sapsuckers on a utility pole, but managed a picture of only one of them before they both &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11107\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11107"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11163,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11107\/revisions\/11163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}