{"id":37898,"date":"2024-12-04T02:14:50","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T07:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=37898"},"modified":"2024-12-04T02:14:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T07:14:50","slug":"that-makes-two-or-is-it-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2024\/12\/that-makes-two-or-is-it-three\/","title":{"rendered":"That makes two. Or is it three?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was sorting images a few hours back, which often results in finding a few more pics to post, and indeed did;<\/strong> moreover, it falls in line with the ‘Just Once’ topic, since it was featured earlier this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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That’s a yellow-bellied sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius<\/em>,) snagged while out chasing wood ducks the other day, on a tree right alongside the pond – shame it wouldn’t get out in the open. I couldn’t see it well enough to identify it, but recall thinking it needed a closer look while initially reviewing it upon unloading the card, then forgetting about it. When I was out there, I believed it to be a downy woodpecker, so just fired off a couple of frames and ignored it, especially since it wasn’t getting into the light. I can be excused, because even at 600mm, the full frame looked like this:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I heard the pecking, and spotted it as it flew to this perch, but the only way I could determine by naked eye that I was looking at the right bird was the upright, trunk-clinging position.<\/p>\n

That makes two of the featured ‘Just Once’ species that I ended up duplicating within a few months of posting – the other was an eastern kingsnake<\/a> less than a month ago. But I also ruled out another candidate, one of the species from my list, before I had a chance to post it, since I photographed it for the second time earlier this year<\/a>, after having gone eleven years since I’d first seen it (though only eight from when I actually posted about it;<\/strong> the images had been published at BugGuide.net<\/a> to identify the species.)<\/p>\n

Annnddd in looking at the spreadsheet of candidates, I found another that slipped my mind:<\/strong> this eastern cicada-killer<\/a> received its second feature this year and dropped off the list. So that’s four. Less than a month to remove another – can it be done?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was sorting images a few hours back, which often results in finding a few more pics to post, and indeed did; moreover, it falls in line with the ‘Just Once’ topic, since it was featured earlier this year. That’s a yellow-bellied sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius,) snagged while out chasing wood ducks the other day, on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[7108,7107],"class_list":["post-37898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-sphyrapicus-varius","tag-yellow-bellied-sapsucker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}