--- [log in to unmask] wrote:

>(tell me how
> there could be very obviously JUVENILE ybss in Ohio at this
> time of year!!)

Yellow-bellied sapsuckers don't complete their molt to adult
plumage until the spring of the year following hatching. Your
birds are older than they might first appear.

Happy birding,
Paul

Paul Gardner
Columbus, OH

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