Northern Flicker

godi · ‎03-09-2010

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

Icegoddess · ‎03-19-2010

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

MarnieRez3 · ‎02-19-2015

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

Carolina925 · ‎03-09-2010

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

PuppyLoverBob666 · ‎12-17-2021

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.

DiAnne · ‎09-22-2010

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.

SeaMaiden · ‎03-10-2010

@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.)

SeaMaiden · ‎03-10-2010

@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....

PA Mom-mom · ‎05-27-2015

@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!