Greensboro Birds

Northern flickers are nesting in our woods. In the spindly-pine-culling frenzy of January, we left a couple that have obviously been used by woodpeckers for nesting cavities. One in particular is riddled with large entrances to woodpecker nests. I was hoping for pileateds, but gaudy flickers are just fine.

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Upon opening the blinds in my office this morning, I was treated to the sight of this female Northern Flicker foraging in the front yard. (That’s a lot of f-words.) First she was picking at stuff in the street, then she moved onto our dead grass and clay, where she spent a fair amount of [...]

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It’s quieting down out there now that peak migration seems to have passed us here, but Josh has been reporting great Northern Flicker sightings around the compound. I got lucky on Friday morning and came upon this one poking in the sidewalk cracks outside our building. Such handsome birds with so many different colors and [...]

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Now that I’ve expanded to park birds, the bird world is our oyster. Here’s what Happy/Daisy and I saw today: the handsome Northern Flicker. A tree-hugging woodpeckery thing, you’ll see Flickers climbing and hammering on trunks (they live in pecked-out holes). All hammering aside, however, most of their food is picked up on the ground. [...]

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