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Touch of Red
Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia
In the gray, overcast light of the cloud banks coming off the Pacific, a red-breasted sapsucker makes his way down a tree trunk.Typical of the region's oceanic climate, every surface is covered in moss and beard lichen. The woodpecker's focus isn't what's on the tree bark, though, it's what's under it: in this case, the resin and sap that begins to flow through the trunk in springtime. The woodpecker feeds off of the sap, as well as any insects that wind up trapped where the bird has drilled its well holes into the tree. Although gardeners dislike sapsuckers for obvious reasons —nobody wants to find that their newly planted trees look like something that was left on a rifle range— an older tree of this size can easily tolerate the bird's activities.
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