Hi Tweets

After Marymoor this morning I went over to Shoreline to see the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. When I turned onto N 169th St. and parked, it was perched on "it's" limb in a Douglas Fir tree. As many have remarked, it is an attractive bird with red crown, black and white face pattern, red throat bordered by black, black upper breast and yellow-tinged white breast and belly. There is no red on the nape. The back is black and white with a black center and whitish edging. The wings are black with a large white wingbar. The undertail coverts are white and the upper tail is darkish.

I observed the bird from 1225 to 1244. During that time it either perched in one spot, or moved slightly to one of the sets of holes it is drilling on the limb (there are at least two instances where the holes have been combined into a "slot"). It finally flew to another Doug Fir and was gone til about 1253 when it returned for a minute before flying away again. Good scope view can be had from the road opposite #510.

Good birding

Brian H. Bell
Birding & Natural History Guide
Woodinville WA
bellasoc at isomedia dot com