Lake Umbagog. Call note of Sapsucker. 1909. June 18. The ordinary call of the Sapsucker is (perhaps) best described by the term snarl. It has a peevish, irritable quality, suggesting that chronically affected by on the part of the bird the bird is in a fit of ill-temper Its resemblance to the scream of the Blue Jay which some writers have noted is not close for the Sap- pitches than that of any Jay. sucker's note is lower and less resonant. It reminds me more of the mew of the Cat-bird but is not closely like that, either.