ML116918131
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Date
Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Media notes
male also at the holes
Observation details
Three Cape May warblers spent about 1 hour in the River Birch next to our porch, 2 males and a female. They worked the branches as I would expect but gradually I noticed that they kept coming back to the trunk. Then I realized they were going to the holes made by a male sapsucker. Soon the Sapsucker arrived to continue his work on the tree and began chasing the warblers away, but they kept evading him and would get back to the holes above him or below or go out on some branches if that did not work until they saw another opportunity. I saw the Yellow-rumped check out some holes but he was driven away and did not return. The Cape Mays were determined and clever and gave me quite a show. I don't know if this is known behavior for this specie and/or others.
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D500
- Lens
- TAMRON SP AF 150-600mm F5-6.3 VC USD A011N
- ISO
- 2500
- Focal length
- 600 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/6.3
- Shutter speed
- 1/1000 sec
- Dimensions
- 1182 pixels x 960 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.2 MB