FINALLY! I finally found a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker at Howell Wetlands this morning during our weekly bird hike. Sapsuckers typically spend the winter in the Tri-state area but this year they were few and far between. The photo on the left was taken at our feeder in 2010 and is a male. The bird we spotted today was a juvenile female, just getting her breeding season plumage.
The other event for the day were 3 Northern Flickers trying to determine who was going to take possession of a nesting cavity. Quite the donniebrook.
With the passage of the storm front yesterday, the temperatures dropped dramatically from the 70's yesterday to the upper 20's this morning. We are hoping a significant number of early spring migrants will hunker down here until the weather warms up again. Reports of many shorebirds at Cane Ridge and Oaksville Bottoms has brought smiles to most birder's faces.
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