{"id":25326,"date":"2014-07-25T04:00:22","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=25326"},"modified":"2014-07-23T06:57:57","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T12:57:57","slug":"sapsucker-nest-hole-attracts-nosy-neighbors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/25\/sapsucker-nest-hole-attracts-nosy-neighbors\/","title":{"rendered":"Sapsucker Nest-hole Attracts Nosy Neighbors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Williamson’s Sapsucker nest-hole that I photographed earlier this summer was apparently of huge interest to a variety of other species in the area.<\/p>\n

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This is the male and female Williamson’s Sapsuckers at their nest hole.\u00a0 I include this shot so that the viewer can get a positive ID on the hole – there were five of them in the tree at various stages of construction.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a01\/2000, f\/6.3, ISO 640, Canon 7D, Canon<\/em> EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/p>\n

On my first\u00a0trip to the nest-tree at the end of May there apparently was still some speculation about what species would occupy which hole.\u00a0 The sapsuckers had obviously excavated all five holes and they were most interested in this one (same one as\u00a0in the first image)\u00a0but so was a pair of House Wrens.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0In fact the wrens were even busy delivering nesting material to the hole – here the bird is trying to wrestle a long twig into the entrance.\u00a0 But eventually the wrens gave up and accepted…<\/p>\n

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a lower nest hole on the tree.\u00a0 The one at the top of this photo became the sapsucker nest and\u00a0the one at the bottom was occupied by the wrens when we returned to the area about a month later.<\/p>\n

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Tree Swallows are noisy little busy-bodies and they were constantly peeking into the sapsucker nest even with one of the adult sapsuckers inside.\u00a0 But to my knowledge none of the swallows nested in this tree.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a01\/4000, f\/5, ISO 640, Canon 7D, Canon<\/em> EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/p>\n

To me the most interesting interloper was this Red-naped Sapsucker who hung around for a few minutes one morning and actually poked its head deep into the hole with the female Williamson’s inside.<\/p>\n

I think the Red-naped got the hint because I never saw it at the\u00a0tree again.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

Note: I’m off on another jaunt to Montana – duration unknown.\u00a0 I’ve scheduled posts in my absence but I’ll be without access to a computer so I won’t be responding to any comments, though I do receive your comments on my phone when I have a signal and I always enjoy them.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

Wish me luck with the smoke from the fires in Washington, Oregon and Idaho – the prevailing wind direction is not helpful…<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Williamson’s Sapsucker nest-hole that I photographed earlier this summer was apparently of huge interest to a variety of other species in the area.<\/p>\n

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