Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: Sphyrapicus nuchalis

Red-naped Sapsucker

19 Sep 2006 145
This is a male because it has a red chin and throat. These woodpeckers drill a series of small, square wells in a tree trunk, making quite a perfect pattern of lined-up "holes". Then they lap up the sap (and insects) from these square wells with their fringed tongue.

Red-naped Sapsucker

28 Aug 2006 1 1 186
Quite a striking bird, but not seen all that often.