This post might be titled “Sapsucker 15, Bander 0.” I took this photo on 6 September 2020. This bird was a retrap—I first banded it on 17 May 2019, almost a year and a half ago. (The oldest Red-breasted Sapsucker, banded and recovered in British Columbia, was at least five years old (All About Birds).) Clearly I got the worse end on this second encounter with my sapsucker. My son, Jon, not-so-sympathetically remarked “clearly the sapsucker remembered you.” This encounter also reminds me of the definition of a field biologist—one who does not believe in the germ theory of medicine.
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