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Northern Flicker

godi — Wed, 04 May 2022 21:38:20 GMT

Visited me yesterday before a very bad storm. He's so beautiful. ❤️

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Icegoddess — Wed, 04 May 2022 21:46:41 GMT

It's our state bird, but I haven't seen any in several years.

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MarnieRez3 — Wed, 04 May 2022 22:04:47 GMT

@godi
What a beauty! Thanks for posting this gorgeous creature. 💙

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Carolina925 — Wed, 04 May 2022 23:32:26 GMT

A favorite, they're so beautiful. Thanks for sharing

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PuppyLoverBob666 — Wed, 04 May 2022 23:32:32 GMT

They're my favorite bird but when we first moved into our house, their pecking (pounding, really) nearly scared me to death--I thought maybe someone was trying to break in.

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DiAnne — Thu, 05 May 2022 00:33:06 GMT

I like birds except for those flickers. They make holes in our wood siding, try to break into our attics to live. Actually I not too fond of the crows either.

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SeaMaiden — Thu, 05 May 2022 13:07:06 GMT

@godi We have a lot of flickers here where I live.( Seattle area)

They can cause a lot of damage in the spring by drilling holes in wood house siding....we had that problem until we replaced our wood siding with hearty plank( made from cement and looks like wood.)

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SeaMaiden — Thu, 05 May 2022 16:20:41 GMT

@DiAnne wrote:
I like birds except for those flickers. They make holes in our wood siding, try to break into our attics to live. Actually I not too fond of the crows either.

@DiAnne Yes and Yes...

HATE CROWS... the crows are LOUD and they attack the robins and other sweet birds and their nests to kill the babies and such to feedthemselves and their young... I had a wonderful nest of baby robins last spring... and watched the crows attack the nest and kill every baby robin... I also find bits and pieces of bird legs AND BEAKS ETC... and such in my bird bath from crows cleaning the kill ( other birds that they murdered....) to feed to their young. Mother Nature is not kind....

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PA Mom-mom — Thu, 05 May 2022 19:13:32 GMT

@SeaMaiden wrote:
@DiAnne wrote:
I like birds except for those flickers. They make holes in our wood siding, try to break into our attics to live. Actually I not too fond of the crows either.
@DiAnne Yes and Yes...

HATE CROWS... the crows are LOUD and they attack the robins and other sweet birds and their nests to kill the babies and such to feedthemselves and their young... I had a wonderful nest of baby robins last spring... and watched the crows attack the nest and kill every baby robin... I also find bits and pieces of bird legs AND BEAKS ETC... and such in my bird bath from crows cleaning the kill ( other birds that they murdered....) to feed to their young. Mother Nature is not kind....

@SeaMaiden Maybe that's why they call a group of crows a "murder of crows." I don't have any problem with the few flickers we see, but crows are the WORST!

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Drythe — Fri, 06 May 2022 00:21:24 GMT

@godi wrote:
Visited me yesterday before a very bad storm. He's so beautiful. ❤️

@godi

Thank you for sharing, one of my favorites, not seen since our Forrest has grown so thick. 💕

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Kalli — Sat, 07 May 2022 03:13:08 GMT

We heard a bird pecking in our chimney. Called the mason who built the fireplace, he came but couldn't get the small door inside the fireplace open.

By chance I mentioned this to the man who was working on our fence at that time. He's a big, strong guy. He got the door open and out came a Northern Flicker! We have a cathedral ceiling in the living room and before he could grab it, the bird flew up to the dormer windows.

Had to get a tall ladder and once again, the fence guy climbed all the way up, got the bird into a small net and released it outside. Whew!

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DiAnne — Sun, 08 May 2022 00:20:45 GMT

@SeaMaiden wrote:
@DiAnne wrote:
I like birds except for those flickers. They make holes in our wood siding, try to break into our attics to live. Actually I not too fond of the crows either.
@DiAnne Yes and Yes...

HATE CROWS... the crows are LOUD and they attack the robins and other sweet birds and their nests to kill the babies and such to feedthemselves and their young... I had a wonderful nest of baby robins last spring... and watched the crows attack the nest and kill every baby robin... I also find bits and pieces of bird legs AND BEAKS ETC... and such in my bird bath from crows cleaning the kill ( other birds that they murdered....) to feed to their young. Mother Nature is not kind....

@SeaMaiden

We have a pair of eagles that live on Lake Washington (about 1 block away) and they raid the crow nests. It will suddenly get really loud outside and you will see 15 -20 crows chasing a large eagle away. Quite a sight to see.

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PuppyLoverBob666 — Thu, 12 May 2022 01:39:42 GMT

I've seen the same thing. One day I hear a sudden, loud commotion with lots of screeching, and it was crows chasing a bald eagle away.