Help Identify These Birds

I think this one is either a woodpecker or a yellow bellied sapsucker. Can you help with this one?

Not sure about this one. It flits all over the place around the bushes but doesn't seem interested in the bird feeders at all. Bug eater, I believe.

What about this one -- this one was flying and landing on the same tree as the woodpecker/sapsucker.

#1 - Yep, a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
#2 - Orange-crowned Warbler; looks like it may have some brown pollen on its head from feeding on nectar in flowers
#3 - Myrtle Warbler (formerly Yellow-rumped Warbler)

Resin

Thanks so much.

I have the same thing going on in my front yard. Have a female YB Sapsucker that has drilled several holes in a young Live Oak tree. A Myrtle visiting several times daily to sip sap from the holes.

Pic of the warbler.

Yes, it definitely looks like a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. You can tell by the wide white areas on the wings. We have a female and a juvenile that frequesnt our suet and birdbath.

mrw31, do you have a suet feeder? The OC Warbler might come to that (that's what they love in my yard during the winter).

Carla

I do have a suet feeder, but nobody seems very interested in it. The suet has actually said unmolested until it molded and then fell apart. I gave up on suet after putting one up several times and had the same thing happen. Are the warblers migratory birds, or are they likely to stay around. If they stay, I could try with suet again.

The warblers should be here another month or more. The Nuthatches and Brown Creepers like it, too. Whenever I buy suet from the store, it's not nearly as popular as my homemade suet. I can hardly keep the homemade in stock. Even when the migrators leave, the Cardinals, Chickadees, Titmouse, Bluebirds, Wrens, Woodpeckers and Bluejays like it. Since I tied my feeder to a tree and attached a twig for a perch, it has gotten a lot more visitors. Here's the recipe that I make most often:
Janie May's Recipe
1 cup crunchy peanut butter
1 cup of lard (melt both for about 1 minutes in microwave).
Add

1 cup of yellow corn meal
1 cup of sugar
2 cups of instant regular flavor oatmeal (comes in packets and takes 6 packets).
Throw in some extra peanuts if you want.
When stirring this, it should get very thick and hard to stir....that means it's right! You can form it into suet blocks and feed it in suet feeders or put it in a bowl inside a bluebird feeder. I refrigerate mine and it will last forever. I usually make two batches at a time. The sugar is a good energy source for winter suet feeding.

Here's a link to more info: http://sialis.org/suet.htm

Thanks much for the suet recipe -- gonna try this. I have left over lard from the holidays (make my own pie crust).

Best Missy, that is the exact recipee that I use from the Sialis web site. Some one described it as bird crack, which is pretty accurate. I add either chopped raisins or hulled sunflower seeds. Store bought stuff got moldy in my feeders on the northshore of Lake Ponchartrain. Now on the southshore, where mrw is, the HOSP went wild over any suet I put out. Can't imagine what would have happened if I put out the homemade stuff :).