{"id":41379,"date":"2016-08-28T05:14:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T11:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=41379"},"modified":"2025-02-24T12:45:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T18:45:33","slug":"red-naped-sapsucker-showing-its-tongue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2016\/08\/28\/red-naped-sapsucker-showing-its-tongue\/","title":{"rendered":"Red-naped Sapsucker Showing Its Tongue"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was getting caught up on my culling yesterday when I came across this image of a Red-naped Sapsucker I photographed in July at a nesting cavity in Utah’s high Uintas<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Red-napedRed-naped Sapsucker Tongue – Nikon D810, f6.3, 1\/2000, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR, natural light
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

I had taken a ton of images of the adult sapsuckers at the nesting cavity opening with food in their bills for their chicks so I had put off going through the images to delete the bad ones because culling can take such a long time. And I take a lot of photos.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I came across this image and realized that the Red-naped Sapsucker had its tongue stuck out and I hadn’t noticed that before so I wanted to post this photo today.<\/p>\n

Maybe the sapsucker was giving me the raspberry. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Red-naped Sapsucker photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I came across this image and realized that the Red-naped Sapsucker had its tongue stuck out and I hadn’t noticed that before. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,1212,2141,1731,3886,26],"tags":[4004,1919,5182,5370,4075,2580,2579,4998,11389,2144,5847,3094,2145,5185,4427,4777,2146],"class_list":["post-41379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-high-uintas-utah","category-red-naped-sapsuckers","category-summit-county-utah","category-uinta-national-forest","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-aspen","tag-cavity","tag-forest","tag-nest","tag-nesting-cavity","tag-nesting-tree","tag-nests","tag-out","tag-red-naped-sapsucker","tag-sapsucker","tag-sapsuckers","tag-sphyrapicus-nuchalis","tag-tongue","tag-tree","tag-woodpecker","tag-woodpeckers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t