This week’s only-seen-here-once-before image is from 19 months ago, February last year, and I couldn’t tell you why I’d never photographed a yellow-bellied sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius) before, or since, but here we are. I would have liked to have gotten closer, or a clearer view at least, but this guy disappeared before I could do much more, perhaps already aware that it had blown its cover. So yeah, it’s on the list of species to do a better job of, but I can even do this as a weekly topic because there are enough critters that evade my attention – I think I’ve eliminated just one potential appearance here because I snagged more frames of a particular species that was on my list of singular appearances when I started this topic. Let’s see if I can knock out any more before the end of the year.
And yes, I could go for several years decades with species that I’ve never photographed, but those would be boring posts, wouldn’t they? At least we have a pic for these…