Sapsuckers 3
(Link fixed)
How would you feel if, every morning, you woke up to find a pair of deadbeats waiting to move into the house that you built with your own beaks?
You can watch a short movie of the chickadees being annoying here and one of the sapsuckers here (not great, but the best I can do with my digital still camera which takes movies just as an afterthought). We have observed that the sapsuckers never leave their nest unattended. One will return before the other leaves.
Here’s me laying in wait on the roof.
(Aside: It has been reliably reported that chickadees support John McCain.
May 5, 2008 at 7:42 am
Chris, is that second picture the one where you told me you thought it was a squirrel on the roof?
May 5, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Squirrelly /= Squirrel
May 5, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Well I did not have my glasses on. . . . and Karen had the picture open. and yes Opie!!!! it was a mistake on my part!!