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South Carolina's redbuds are in bloom
South Carolina's redbuds are in bloom

Cercis canadenis, redbuds are in bloom in South Carolina and what a distinctive and lovely understory tree they are.

3 years, 2 months ago

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Sap sucker diet
Sap sucker diet

Like many birds, they also enjoy fruits and berries, in season, which are a consistent part of their diet.

3 years, 3 months ago

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Yellow-bellied sap suckers nesting
Yellow-bellied sap suckers nesting

Male sapsuckers spend several weeks drilling out a nesting cavity, preferring trees with heart-rot fungus if possible as they are softer to drill int…

3 years, 3 months ago

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Tree damage by yellow-bellied sap suckers?
Tree damage by yellow-bellied sap suckers?

If you are worried about a tree used by sapsuckers, you can wrap small gauge chicken wire or such around the trunk.

3 years, 3 months ago

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Yellow-bellied sap sucker migration
Yellow-bellied sap sucker migration

Amazingly migratory, this bird nests in our part of the country as well as in Alaska and Canada and drills sap wells into trees, over years they are …

3 years, 3 months ago

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Yellow-bellied sap suckers suck sap
Yellow-bellied sap suckers suck sap

This is the only woodpecker that doesn’t actively drill in tree trunks looking for insects to eat

3 years, 3 months ago

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What's in a name?
What's in a name?

Well, the poor yellow-bellied sapsucker gets a bad rap, as it sounds like these are cowardly birds when really their name comes from their attractive…

3 years, 3 months ago

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Walking in nature
Walking in nature

It is a day of joy when my puppy Blue and I walk with my friend Ann Nolte. She and her husband Hank Stallworth live on a portion of what was his fami…

3 years, 4 months ago

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Depleted aquifers
Depleted aquifers

In my home county of Calhoun, a heavily irrigated farming area, the aquifer is dropping, and many people are having to redrill their wells, so this i…

3 years, 4 months ago

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Polluted river = polluted ocean
Polluted river = polluted ocean

If trash is not removed from the LA river culvert, it goes straight into the Pacific Ocean.

3 years, 4 months ago

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