Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 23:03:58 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Danny Poet Subject: SAPSUCKER AND YELLOW RUMPED WARBLER Comments: cc: Lroslund@bluecrab.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Hi all Sorry this is a late post but Here goes anyway . On Sun Jan 12 2003 I looked out the Picture window at the suger Maples in our front Yard they are full of holes made by a yellow-Bellied Sapsucker .The Holes Are leaking sap soon a Male Sapsucker came in to feed to on the sweet sap you could see a sticky mess on its bill looking through the spotting scope .While looking in the trees a Yellow - Rumped warbler was hovering in the air at the sap wells licking maple sap also would fly away and soon return to feed on more sap sometimes perched on a close by twig while feeding or hovering . A Carolina Chickadee would land in the same tree and the warbler would chase the Chickadee away this happened twice. The Chickadee Did not get to stay long enough to see if it wanted to feed at the sap wells. This observation was very interesting to watch. I looked in some of my referance books on birds but could find no mention of this till I opened the old classic Bent Life histories book on warblers were there is a detailed account of this behavior . I have heard of hummingbirds and other woodpeckers feeding on sapsucker wells but this was my first look at other species doing so . There was also a flock of 5 Eastern Bluebirds feeding on some Juniper berries in the yard . Happy Birding Danny Poet Queenstown, Md dannypoet2hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================