Sunday, March 01, 2020

Something That Gives One Pause

I have not posted too many woodpecker photos, but we do get many species in the yard. They come to the feeders but prefer the suet to the seeds. Below is a series of flickers that eat grubs from our yard as they aerate the lawn. They also peck insects from tree bark and eat seeds from plants. The male is the one with the mustache, of course!!




This is the best picture I found to show that our variety has a yellow shaft on his wing.


They are truly beautiful birds and one year one even came the deck door during a cold winter seeming to want to be let in! Below a male and female. I would love to find their nests.

9 comments:

  1. I love flickers. The way you see that white flash as they fly up. And when they shed feathers,the yellow shaft that is a sure identifier.

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  2. Around here they are very fidgety birds.

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  3. Awesome photos. They are a very gentle bird.

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  4. As a gut who Flickrs daily, I like this post.

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  5. I have seen them here but not often. They are such interesting looking creatures!

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  6. we have flickers here too. one was working determinedly on a dead branch of one of the pecan trees and the ground underneath is littered with little chips of wood.

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  7. Such pretty bug eaters. Not sure i've seen those here, but i am not good at birding.

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  8. We have those here on the west coast too. They are fairly common in our neighborhood. It's about this time of year that a resident male will start drumming on out metal chimney cap. Something to do with mating I think. They are beautiful birds.

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  9. Beautiful photos. Flickers are a favorite. They roller coaster glide of their flight pattern is a real treat to watch.

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