Yes, they have yellow bellies

From my walk the other day, this male yellow-bellied sapsucker displays his name-sake feature. The yellow belly is not always easily visible.

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Spring cleaning chickadee

A chickadee exits the nest with a mouthful of wood. He flies to a nearby branch and spits out the scrapings.

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Yellow-bellied lumberjack

My favorite picture taking birds are the woodpeckers. This yellow-bellied sapsucker bangs away on a dead tree trunk with a rapid and loud bang-bang-bang! They should call him a “yellow-bellied jack hammer!”
I hear him from a quarter-mile away and, after tromping through the underbrush, I get within 20 yards of him. He doesn’t care. He keeps pounding away and I get to take as many images as I want.

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Springtime downy

The downy woodpeckers are finally showing up around the far bog. In fact, the birds are slowly returning after our Maineiac spring of 2018. Last Wednesday was ice out on the big pond near our house. Tonight, the last snow will melt away from our back yard.

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Spring goldeneye

The Maine winter weather has been slow to leave and this has reduced our outdoor time. We were quite surprised to get sorta close to this common goldeneye duck species this week.