There it was, attached to the siding of Mae Whalen's northeast Rochester home. It looked almost natural, as if it had just landed in hopes of finding some insects inside the painted redwood siding.

“And you tell him if he don’t show up himself, he ain’t nothing but a yellow-bellied sapsucking coward.”–Denzel Washington as Sam Chisolm in the 2016 remake of "The Magnificent Seven" Arguably our ...

Yellow-bellied sapsuckers make rows of holes in trees to eat the sap that flows out and insects that get trapped in it. (Clay Wollney) Seven species of woodpeckers have been seen on Staten Island.

Yellow-bellied sapsucker is a disparaging name for a little woodpecker. Yellow connotes cowardice, while sapsucker bespeaks a chump. The bird is merely a woodpecker that clings against a tree trunk at ...

This juvenile female yellow-bellied sapsucker definitely has a yellow belly, but she lacks the bold black and white patterns that appear on the heads of adults. Credit: PHOTO BY BILL DANIELSON Sign up ...

While sitting in my home office in Decatur the other morning, I saw a flash of red on a tulip poplar outside my window. A red-bellied woodpecker, I thought. Then I got a better look. It was a another ...

For a region without woods, the Red River Valley has a lot of woodpeckers. Probably, every little patch of trees has woodpeckers, and they can be found in winter in fields of standing corn. Those ...

There have been many calls this month to the Duval County Extension Office describing a very unusual pattern of shallow pencil sized holes mysteriously appearing on the trunks of trees all over the ...

On a recent episode of Jeopardy, the correct question to an answer was, “What’s a yellow-bellied sapsucker?” My ears perked up because I notice when birds get favorable attention on national TV. And ...

Over the last few weeks, I have seen several trees in south Marion County that were declining quickly, and likely dying with no recourse available. These trees often start with branches showing ...

My selection of a writing topic is not always an easy thing. Sometimes I sit down to the keyboard and find myself completely stuck. I haven’t had an idea all week and at the last minute, I still find ...