Today I found another male Williamson's Sapsucker in Canon City, this one in a private yard only about a hundred feet from another male Williamson's I found previously. Both were busy feeding in their respective pine trees this morning. The closest male Williamson's I had previously found are located at Rouse Park and I saw both of those feeding in their respective pines providing support for this guy being a new additional Williamson's. I have uploaded a pic of this new sapsucker onto my <goog_1979599684> BirdsAndNature <http://BirdsAndNature.blogspot.com> blog because it shows this sapsucker by a gallery of enlarged rectangular sap wells that I have seen this and other sapsucker species make--they drill additional holes near the original hole and probe into it causing it to be enlarged and to go from the more commonly seen round hole to a rectangular hole. It is interesting that *Birds of North America *online discusses this type of feeding behavior in it's account for Yellow-bellied but not in the Williamson's account.
I was unable to find the female Williamson's that Doug Kibbe had found in Rouse Park Saturday but also could not relocate the one I found at McKinley Elementary School yesterday--since these two locations are only a half mile apartt, they may well be the same bird. The trees where I saw the female by the school between the teachers parking lot and the main entrance to the school so there is a lot of disturbance. Rich Miller let me know that he found a dead male Williamson's today that he thought had either been hit by a car or had hit a window as it showed no sign of being killed by a predator. This bird was by some pines in a location where I had not found any Williamson's this year (or fresh sap wells) though I had checked those trees last week as sapsuckers have worked them in past years. This location is just under a mile from Lakeside Cemetery it might have been one of the 3 males I found there last Friday (Rich saw 2 males and 2 females at the cemetery today). With the loss of this Williamson's I am leaving the total count of Williamson's in Canon City at 22. SeEtta Moss Canon City http://BirdsAndNature.blogspot.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
