Birds and Nature

Another amazing video from the BBC of another amazing species: the Satin Bowerbird. SeEtta

Another truly amazing video of an astounding species. SeEtta

In this very short clip the Williamson's Sapsucker stops feeding and appears to react to a motorcycle driving past on road, then probes a few more times before moving away. This is a very shy bird.

This clip gives good views of the Williamson's Sapsucker as he probes sap wells he evidently drilled previously. It also illustrates how shy this bird is as my car's 'your door has been open too long' bell sounds several times (I remained in the car to avoid disturbing the bird but had the tripod just outside my open car door, with the keys out of the ignition but my car doesn't care). He stops feeding and appears to watch for the source of the bell sounds, then probes a few more times before leaving his 'out in the open' perch to go behind the tree. He then stayed behind the tree for several minutes. SeEtta

This very short video clip gives a view of the Williamson's Sapsucker from the back. Unfortunately he was on the shady side of the tree so it's a little dark. Be sure to view to the end when the sapsucker stretches out one leg giving a great view of plumage usually not seen. Then it stretches it's wings back towards each other for another interesting view. SeEtta

In this video clip the Williamson's Sapsucker probes sap wells it previously drilled-something I learned from watching this sapsucker for an extended period of time. It is likely looking for small insects attracted to the fresh spa. It may also be ingesting more sap that may have oozed out. SeEtta

This is a video clip of a Williamson's Sapsucker drilling sap wells in a non-native elm (siberian or chinese type) tree. I found this male last week in a dry wash that has had enough run-off to support a small group of these trees in the middle pinyon-juniper habitat in Fremont Co.,CO. SeEtta