ML618947750
Red-naped x Red-breasted Sapsucker (hybrid) Sphyrapicus nuchalis x ruber
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult Female - 1
- Tags
- Nest
Media notes
Female sapsucker with her own presumed nest hole at left, taking exception to the proximity of a white-breasted nuthatch male who had been carrying food to and possibly working on a nest in the same tree. (There was a white-breasted nuthatch in the same tree last summer, as well as a hybrid sapsucker and a tree swallow nest, both of which seem to be in progress this year as well. I didn't see conflict with the tree swallows nesting on the other side of the tree.)
Observation details
Hybrid male and female copulating after male crooned sweetly repeatedly to summon her; a while later the female worked on their nest hole, and climbed around the tree looking into other nest holes. She made some territorial gestures toward a white-breasted nuthatch male who was carrying food to the tree (where w.b. nuthatches were also nesting last summer) and grew agitated. Once she had become irritated by this nuthatch, she even seemed a little displeased with the downy woodpecker female working on her nest hole one tree over in the same glade, and I left to avoid any chance of increasing her upset.
Additional species
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS R7
- Lens
- RF100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM
- Focal length
- 183 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/7.1
- Shutter speed
- 1/640 sec
- Dimensions
- 6960 pixels x 4640 pixels
- Original file size
- 5.44 MB