Common name: Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (juvenile) Kingdom: Animalia; Phylum: Chordata; Class: Aves; Order: Piciformes; Family: Picidae; Genus: Sphyrapicus; Species: Sphyrapicus varius. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (likely juvenile) clings to a tree trunk in green dappled light, showing its bold white wing patch and red crown; neat rows of sap wells dot the bark beside its bill.

Woodpecker logic: drill, sip, wait. This Yellow-bellied Sapsucker keeps tidy rows like a careful accountant.

“Attention is the beginning of devotion.” — Mary Oliver

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