As a result, sapsuckers may spend quite a bit of time defending their sugar trees from hungry hummingbirds. However, hummingbirds are diabolically fast, so they do manage to pilfer some of the food ...

The forested areas of East Texas are home to more species of woodpeckers than any other area of the state. With the ivory-billed woodpecker being extirpated (and most likely extinct) ...

The Yellow-bellied Sapsucker is a medium-sized woodpecker that lives in the forests around us but is (I would hypothesize) rarely seen. I can say with no embarrassment that it was years, ...

Yellow-bellied sapsuckers use their beaks to drill quarter-inch holes into trees’ bark in very neatly spaced rows to feed on the sap. Courtesy, James Solomon, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org ...

The Yellow-bellied Sapsucker winters here in Central Texas. It’s a migratory woodpecker species that summers in a large swath of North American forests from eastern Alaska across Canada to the ...

Yellow-bellied sapsuckers use their beaks to drill quarter-inch holes into trees’ bark in very neatly spaced rows to feed on the sap. Courtesy, James Solomon, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org ...

This yellow-bellied sapsucker was photographed off Cripple Creek Road in Ester on May 19. Photo by Josh Spice; Photo by JJ Frost.

Q. We found a pine tree with distinctive rings spaced from several inches to more than a foot apart around the trunk. It looked like the bark had been damaged, ...

The Yellow-bellied Sapsucker winters here in Central Texas. It’s a migratory woodpecker species that summers in a large swath of North American forests from eastern Alaska across Canada to the ...