Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Photos

Photography by Terry Sohl

My Favorite: Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers are a species that for some reason has often cooperated with my camera! My favorite photo is the one below, of a male returning to a nesting cavity. From May 21st, 2010 in Minnehaha County, South Dakota.

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - Sphyrapicus varius


Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 3	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 4
June 16th, 2006	June 11th, 2006	July 1st, 2006	September 2nd, 2007
Beaver Creek Nature Area, South Dakota	Beaver Creek Nature Area, South Dakota	Big Sioux Recreation Area, South Dakota	Big Sioux Recreation Area, South Dakota
Female clinging to tree trunk	Female clinging to tree trunk	Male clinging to tree trunk	First-year male still transitioning to adult plumage

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 5	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 6	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 7	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 8
June 13th, 2006	June 13th, 2006	June 16th, 2007	June 16th, 2006
Beaver Creek Nature Area, South Dakota	Beaver Creek Nature Area, South Dakota	Big Sioux Recreation Area, South Dakota	Beaver Creek Nature Area, South Dakota
Female	Female	Female	Female

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 9	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 10	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 11	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 12
June 16th, 2006	July 2nd, 2006	June 5th, 2007	July 13th, 2008
Beaver Creek Nature Area, South Dakota	Big Sioux Recreation Area, South Dakota	Newton Hills State Park, South Dakota	Beaver Creek Nature Area, South Dakota
Female	Young first-year female	Male at active sapsucker well	Female

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 13	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 14	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 15	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 16
September 2nd, 2007	July 20th, 2008	July 20th, 2008	July 20th, 2008
Big Sioux Recreation Area, South Dakota	Newton Hills State Park, South Dakota	Newton Hills State Park, South Dakota	Newton Hills State Park, South Dakota
Young first-year male	Young female at sapsucker wells	First-year bird at sapsucker wells	Juvenile at sapsucker wells

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 17	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 18	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 19	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 20
September 7th, 2007	September 7th, 2007	September 7th, 2007	July 2009
Newton Hills State Park, South Dakota	Newton Hills State Park, South Dakota	Newton Hills State Park, South Dakota	Beaver Creek Nature Area, South Dakota
Adult male	Adult male	Female	Adult Male

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 21	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 22	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 23	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 24
May 21st, 2010	May 21st, 2010	May 21st, 2010	May 17th, 2011
Minnehaha County, South Dakota	Minnehaha County, South Dakota	Minnehaha County, South Dakota	Minnehaha County, South Dakota
Male at entrance to nesting hole	Male at entrance to nesting hole	Adult male	Unusual female sapsucker with completely black crown

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 25	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 26	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 27	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 28
May 11th, 2011	May 22nd, 2011	May 17th, 2013	May 15th, 2020
Minnehaha County, South Dakota	Minnehaha County, South Dakota	Newton Hills State Park, South Dakota	Minnehaha County, South Dakota
Adult Male	Adult female on lichen-covered tree trunk	Adult Male	Adult Male

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 29
May 4th, 2011
Beaver Creek Nature Area, South Dakota
Adult female on ground