Bird Watching: Close Encounter of the nervous kind, 1 by boojum

boojum wrote:
Today after a storm, I was walking around to see the garden and what flowers had opened, when I spotted (and I mean spotted) something on the hoya on the porch table that didn't belong there. This male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker was holding on to the hoya plant after bonking into the kitchen window. Guess those window alert maple leaves are not doing the job.

I sat with him and told him to please live. He was too stunned to react to my being there except to open his eyes a bit wider.