Texas Gardening: Fireside chat - Part 2 - pull up a chair and sit a spell..., 0 by podster

podster wrote:
I agree on loving the woodpeckers! They are just a bit elusive for me to try to photo. I just went for a walk with the real Podster and we saw a yellow bellied sapsucker just staying ahead of us.

Have you ever seen what the sapsucker does to hardwoods? A friend that is a forester showed me some trees that had horizontal holes drilled in them. The holes fill with sap and the bird returns often to drink from them. The reference books say other birds will visit the sap too like hummingbirds, titmice and nuthatches. It doesn't hurt the trees. This is some firewood we had cut from a tree that came down during a storm. Neat and orderly holes ~ almost looks like stitching.