Wow! A dozen Pine Warblers, cool! I've only had one here, but he's just
one of several birds fighting over the suet feeder.

I was not able to access the site Jeny posted below, but I've seen sapsucker
holes where I've lived in the past. Unlike other woodpeckers, which make
larger holes for both feeding & nesting, sapsucker "feeder" holes are
usually small, very neatly arranged in rows, and on living trees -- rather
than the dead or dying trees favored by woodpeckers.

While I can understand how owners of rare and/or expensive landscape trees
might be upset at the work of sapsuckers, I don't think the birds do all
that much damage to healthy living trees, although I may be wrong about that
(Will Cook, where are you with a good scientific answer here?)

As for a breather in the yard today, I finished pruning the suckers off my
pear tree. It's been nearly a year since I felt up to doing much yard work,
and *boy* am I out of shape! Not to mention what my trees & shrubs got away
with during my "downtime"!

Anne Lurie
NE Raleigh

"Raleighgirl" wrote in message
. com...
Hiya.
I've been enjoying the conversations about all of the different birds
at the birdfeeders. Indeed, I have a dozen or so pine warblers, too.

Looking at this picture
(http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...u/wp_about/lib
/images/pettinggill.jpg&imgrefurl=http://birds.cornell.edu/wp_about/bi
ology.html&h=202&w=300&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dyellow%2Bbellied%2Bsapsucker
%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8) of a yellow
bellied sapsucker, I noticed the trunk he is sitting on. It is
covered with the same type of scars that I tried to describe years
ago! Is this caused by cicadas?

I hope everyone got a little breather out in the yard today.
Thanks,
Jeny