This fall has been pretty quiet on the Flicker front…I just haven’t seen much of them. But as winter has come along they are starting to come in more and more. They are still rooting around looking for insects and such (note the mud on the bill) but eventually, they’ll hit the suet just like … Read more
It’s been awhile since we have had a regular sighting of the Yellow Shafted Flickers. I found them nesting in a hole about 20′ up in a dead tree this spring, but once the leaves came out they were pretty stealthy. They are just now coming back into the feeders, which probably means the other … Read more
One of my favorite birds of the backyard. The Flicker is actually in the woodpecker family and it generally get’s along with everyone, unless you get too close while it’s feeding. Then they can get rough and tumble and I haven’t seen a bird, even a Blue Jay, take it on and win. North America … Read more
Make no mistake, this beauty rules the backyard feeders. I used to think Blue Jays or Red Bellied Woodpeckers were pretty bossy. They’d announce their arrival well ahead of time, and if any other birds where near the feeder they wanted to command, they were soon shown the door. But try to scrap with this … Read more