Cornell Nature-Study Leaflets / Being a selection, with revision, from the teachers' leaflets, home nature-study lessons, junior naturalist monthlies and other publications from the College of Agriculture, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., 1896-1904

by New York State College of Agriculture

5. It is said that this woodpecker eats the inner bark of the tree as well as the sap. What can you find out about this?

Fig. 328. The sapsucker. Compare this picture with that of the downy woodpecker in Fig. 327.

6. Do you ever find insects near the holes made by the sapsucker? Do you think he eats them?

7. Find out where the sapsucker has his nest.

IV. THE FLICKER.[88]

Three woodpeckers have been introduced to you in these leaflets: the red-head, the hard working downy ([Fig. 327]), the sapsucker ([Fig. 328]). There is one more that we ought to add to the list for summer study, since he is very likely to cross our path,—the flicker ([Fig. 329]).

Fig. 329. The flicker.