Red-breasted Sapsucker
Sphyrapicus ruber
 (L 8.5" WS 16" WT 1.8 oz)
Del Valle Park
Livermore, CA
29Dec2008
My father told me all about the
birds and the bees, the liar - I
went steady with a woodpecker
till I was twenty-one.
    (Bob Hope)
Drillings for sap may
attract hummingbirds.
Note all the
holes pecked
into the tree!