While watching a big bruin black bear amble across a meadow, birds began to materialize and pour into a large lone maple in the field. Flickers! About 75 of them.

The northern flicker is a common permanent resident of the Ada area and is this week’s featured creature. Flickers are actually woodpeckers but don’t always act like typical woodpeckers. They ...

Northern flickers, a species of woodpecker, ... They like suet, black oil sunflower and nyjer seeds) though they are rarely found on the bird feeder itself, preferring to forage on the ground.

Flickers are distinctive birds that stand out from the many smaller, drabber birds that flit through the shrubs and trees during this migration season. Northern flickers are blue jay-sized ...

There are over a dozen species of flicker, living in various parts of the Americas. The species we see here is call the northern flicker. This species occurs over most of North America, plus ...

A northern flicker hangs onto a suet feeder while eating nuts from a suet cake. MTRUCHON — GETTY IMAGES. Facebook; Twitter; ... I haven’t seen the red-bellied take a wing or a beak to the flicker. On ...

The flickers are here. Even if you haven’t seen one yet this fall, nor consciously absorbed the fact of their arrival, I would be surprised if the physical phenomenon of their loud and ringing ...

For support with northern flickers and other wildlife conflicts or habitat questions, reach out to Think Wild’s Wildlife Services Coordinator at [email protected] or visit their ...

Sure, I had seen northern flickers, as well as pileated woodpeckers — the much larger, red-headed Woody the Woodpecker prototype — drumming away at the rotten bark and trunks in search of bugs.