Just a few days ago, the next day after having watched your in-depth Norethern Flicker video, I was lucky enough to hear some "wicca wicca" calls right outside my window in the forest. Only due to your video was I able to discover who those birds making that adorable and fascinating call were! Thank you! Those of us with access to wooded property and who don't own predatory pets should consider buying the specialty northern flicker nesting box that is mentioned in the in-depth video. These birds are in decline due to habitat loss, as Lesley mentions.
I enjoy birds very much. A nest of them in our neighbors tree changed my view on flickers. What a noisy pest while mating and nesting. I will be covering the hole in the tree before next season. If they want to nest there next year they will have to bore a new home.
Many years ago my father told me he saw a Flicker and he was thrilled because it was the one and only time he ever saw one! I am 73 and feed the birds in my yard. What a pleasant surprise 2 years ago when a pair of Flickers raised their family near me and visited my suet cakes daily! I was as thrilled as my father was many years ago!
They sure are! Do you see the different birds bringing their babies to the feeder? That happened the 2nd year that I had my suet feeder hanging on my balcony. 🙂 Watch for them in the spring.
Awakened 5 times between 5:30 - 7 over space of 2 weeks by sound of jackhammer on concrete. After convincing all my neighbors I'm crazy, discovered a flicker hammering on my chimney cap reverberated all the way down to my furnace. Buddy must have found himself a mate because after that last salvo I've slept undistrubed.
I look at and photograph the feathers I find in my yard - just yesterday I found a small black and brown spotted feather and now see that it was indeed a feather from a yellow shafted northern flicker. Last year I found only one yellow shafted primary wing feather. I throw them back into nature - they are illegal to keep. And all month long, I have been hearing that "wicka-wicka-wicka" sound - and so soft that it sounds like person saying it in a whisper! I never knew that was the flicker-flicker-flicker making that call! I love how the red on the head is almost shaped like a heart!
Yay another Flicker video! The Flicker is one of my favorite birds. I remember just starting my ornithology class in college when I saw a cute bird with polka dots on it’s chest, on the ground. I couldn’t wait to find out what bird it was and later that semester I realized I saw a female Northern Flicker. Such pretty birds! 🧡
3 days ago, I saw this bird for the first time in all my 62 years. Two of them showed up in my black tupelo tree, along with all the normal Robins, to feast on the bitter purple berries. The Robins come every year, the tree is always alive with them! I had to Google this new bird with the black crescent moon on its chest. Now that I have heard its call here on the video, I recognize it from over the summer. I had mentioned to my husband a few times that I was hearing a strange bird call and had no idea who it was. Now I know. :)
Can't say that I've knowingly seen one of these, but I found a feather once. A yellow, pointed, tail feather. Still have that feather, a decade or so later. ...yeah, I'm a bird nerd too. 😊🇨🇦
I got all excited this morning when a Flicker visited my feeder for the first time. I've been a bird watcher for 40 years and was super surprised. Like the Red Bellied, he wasn't deterred by any other birds. Even the Blue Jays gave him space. Made my day.
I don’t even have feeders and these birds have been visiting our backyard! This one is so beautiful to gaze at as it grazes through our lawn. Their call sounds like maniacal laughter. 🤭❤
A Flicker family about 10 years ago hammered their way into my storage shed going through the wood soffit. They made a substantial mess inside the shed which required moving about half of the shed's items out then cleaning off the poop. The shed now has cement Hardie board for soffits to prevent this from happening again. Gorgeous birds who occasionally visit our property.
Florence, Fiona and Finley are my sweeties (Northern Flickers). They have always been quite shy, but lately I’ve been on the sweetie patrol much more often (hawk migration). Now since they have seen me deter the hawks, they have become warmer with me. Just this morning Florence went fishing for worms- and only about 10 feet away! It is always such a lovely feeling when you can build trust with a flying friend. His cute white little bum bum gives me a happy chuckle every time he swoops around! It’s been a real blessing to watch this family grow and evolve as it is our first ever year with Flickers ☺️🕊️
I enjoyed yet another of your beautifully filmed videos. We call them Yellow Hammer’s here in Alabama where they are the state bird. We Eve n mention them in the football cheer/chant for the University of Alabama (my beloved university). We say Rammer Jammer, Yellow Hammer, Give Em Hell Alabama. There is also a famous cocktail served in Tuscaloosa called the Yellowhammer. I may have enjoyed a few back in my university days. In the fall I put out dried mealworm feeders, PB and seed blocks and sunflower seed feeders that they enjoy visiting. I live on a mountain above the Cahaba River on the edge of the city which lets us enjoy an 8 minute commute downtown but still enjoy a woodland environment. We see 4-6 different woodpecker species here. They aren’t as friendly as some of my other visitors and I enjoyed seeing your close up shots.
I remember the first one I saw. A Red Shafted male, perched on my fence. Checking out my yard. Wow. Later the day... The Wicka, Wicka Wicka. They loved the suet. And the many anthills. A few years later, I was lucky enough to see a pair of juveniles.
I love seeing the Flickers visit our yard in GA, but they can be very sporadic. Was very happy to see one coming to dust bathe near one of our trees last year. It would come to the same spot at nearly the same time every night for about a week and go into a frenzy, rolling around in the dirt and mulch! So cool! PS, This was also the first time I learned of birds “dust bathing”! Why do birds do this? Thanks!
They are very easy to attract with suet feeders. I lived in a busy apartment complex in Seattle with small area of woods nearby, and they were daily visitors to my 2nd floor balcony feeder. They would always come very early in the morning, but also from time to time throughout the day. The 2nd year I had the feeder up, all the birds were bringing the babies to the feeder once they fledged. The little babies would sit on the rail and beg! It was so cute.😁 Eventually their parents would quit feeding them and make them come to the feeder themselves.
Thank you! So fun to learn more about these birds. Just witnessed them do a territorial dance I'm my backyard. Very fun! These birds like to hang out in my Russian olive trees in the winter and eat their berries.
Took me a while to identify this bird this morning because it wasn't listed in wood pecker section of my little book. Thank you for sharing this video because if I had any doubts you swept them away. He was chowing down on my porch suet cake!
Way Out West the red-shafted Northern Flicker is common in & out of town. One of the first birds I learned to ID at age 7. Noisy, rather shy & handsome. Good work again, Lesley!
Many years ago I had the privilege of examining a flicker up close during a wildlife rehabilitator class... these are magnificently beautiful birds. Thanks for your educational and entertaining videos, they're wonderful.
Several of these beauties visit my yard and garden in NE Ohio often. I hear them more than I see them. It's always a treat to see them stylin' in their fancy outfits.
This is a great video! I see them in my dense suburban neighborhood each year. They seem to like the pine trees and the utility poles. I think now they might be going after beetles and ants in them. They're a beautiful sight every time.
I live in Chicago and been feeding birds awhile now. Never saw one until yesterday. 20° out and they were eating suet along with Parakeets and chikadees.
Great footage from your contributors, the Flickers are not as flashy as the Pileateds but still a great looking bird. Wisconsin has a very healthy population so Ive often taken them for granted but seeing these photos and vid clips I can see Ive been missing out. They are so wary, I get way more close looks at Pileateds than I do Flickers, seems all you ever get to see is the white "taillight" as they take off from the ground. Used to watch one hammer on an ant hill in the front yard but I had to do it from inside, every darn time I tried to sneak outside with the binos it caught me and flew off, but they sure do love them some ants.
Your video`s pop up in my recommendations very often. I still think about your farewell video a few months ago you posted. I will always enjoy your videos and I hope they will hang around for a long time. Every good thing must have a conclusion. I wish the best for you. But I know you have a passion, and I expect you can`t hold back forever. Thank you.
Anyone... at 25 seconds, what kind of evergreen tree is at the left of the screen? Really neat how it sweeps the ground. Bet it is wonderful for the birds in the winter.
My husband built me a flicker house following all the required specs. I painted it and got all the wood chips that is suggested for the bottom, crosshatching the sides for young to be able to climb out. I spent most of spring, on a ladder, clearing out stupid house sparrows every 2nd day!😡 Finally “ corked “ the entrance as I was sure the window of beating was over Will give it a go next year :) 🤞🏽
@@LesleytheBirdNerd are you allowed to give me your email? I just have a lot of questions about birding and you with other birds that I’m very curious about.
Excellent info Leslie! This summer for the first time in years, we have two mating pairs of Flickers - and both have two juveniles each. With 8 flickers joining our 'woodpecker menagerie' this summer it's quite the auditory sensation around the property (we also have pileated, red-headed, red-breasted, downy, hairy, and yellow-bellied sapsuckers). All of the species inter-mingle fairly well, but there definitely is a pecking order. lol
This is such an amazing short packed full of useful information about this birds. I became curious about this guys after finding 2 in my backyard and wanting to photograph them started to research which birds they were... and eventually started birding and setting bird baths, and feeders around my house.
I've been watching your videos and am impressed. I try to do something similar with my photos -- I was a journalist for 32 years and still like to have informative captions for my images. Of course, when I get to writing these captions, I often end up writing short articles for the first image, providing details about the birds, animals, plants and flowers, as well as insects and spiders I photograph. Thank you for posting these videos. They are both a joy to watch and an educational experience. You rock!
Wonderful video! I got to talk to some ornithologists at the beach this past week. They were studying and surveying the birds that were nesting on the dunes! Thank you Lesley! Have a good week!
Just saw my first group of these in Southwest Iowa, the red nape is very distinctive. We've never seen them before, thank you for this and the other video you've done on them. We're not birders but I can see the allure.
I live Mt Rainier National park and do Project Feederwatch each year. My favorite birds are the flickers and I spend the first couple weeks each season documenting my hybrids. I get a lot of all teds, and hybrids, but have yet to see a full yellow shafted bird. We get "gap winds" from Eastern Washington over the Cascades that affect the community I live in and I figure an occasional yellow gets blown down the pass. I definitely have an unusual number of hybrid individuals each year...lots of fun!
In Vancouver BC my family has suet feeders and we have red shafted flickers every day. Had as many as five of them as the young ones were just able to fly.
Love this video on Northern Flickers , they are one of my favorites! We see them everyday eating ants in the yard. So happy they are around! Thank you Lesley!🕊
There was a fledgling in my backyard and I didn't realize it when I let my dogs out. They didn't hurt it but it was a bit damp from their investigation. I rescued it and it made it to a tree safely.
Love love love flickers!! So happy when I watch them with there families, foraging for food or just eating the bird seed i put out. Enjoy there calls and there beauty!!! Thanks for the video clips!!
We have a lot up here in the residential areas due to a good forest canopy. This spring one of them took a liking to our metal chimney cap to let presumably a potential mate know it was in the neighborhood . The sound does go all the way down into the basement which I wouldn't mind but the cap is almost 30 yrs old and a puncture in any dent would mean a leak into the basement. So if I can get outside soon enough I clap my hands together like a gunshot to haze it to another sound maker like the topside of a utility pole at the back alley which they have used before numerous times. And at least every couple days at least one will pop by for some water out of the metal beer keg top aka birdbath, out on the patio deck, next to our primary blue spruce.
It was so coincidental that I watched your previous video on these birds the same day I saw one for the first time. I love your channel. Any chance they are also called yellow-belly sap suckers? I saw that in an old birding guide. Fowlers I think.
These are beautiful and intelligent birds to watch. A female and male like to come to my squirrel proof sunflower chip feeder and steal from it. They have figured out how to balance upside down without putting too much pressure on the feeder (which closes the openings)! I was able to watch the first time one of them figured this out. It took her less than a minute. Very impressive birds.
Really cool birds and fun to watch. I put up a next box for Kestrels a few years ago. No joy with that other than starlings building nest upon the wood chips within early this spring then moving on. Just the other day however spotted a Flicker in it (totally unexpected). A quick check when I could revealed 3 eggs within. Awesome.
Great description and I really like watching them - really striking colours and markings. I was happy see several of them show up in mid-March this year from migration in one of the areas I regularly go birding. Thanks for sharing!
I am enjoying this channel more than ever right now. For the past 3 months or so the county I live in and many surrounding counties are experiencing a mass bird die off. The dept. of Natural resources have asked everyone to take down their bird feeders and baths until they can figure out what is going on. I have seen several dead birds over the last months displaying crusty eyes which is the main symptom of this event. Its very sad and I miss my bird feeder visitors, even the squirrels.
If most of their diets are ants, I should have gobs of these guys living in my backyard and in my neighborhood. I’ve only seen one in one of my trees this year. Love woodpeckers…such personalities!
While very familiar with the "wicka wicka" call, I was surprised to hear the other call here. This will confound me no end as it seems so similar to the call of the pileated?
Great video Lesley! We have a lot of these around, and we were wondering why one of our local American Robins was trying to attack a Northern Flicker the other day - he was really mad at him and chased him away.
I sometimes mix up the "weet, weet, weet," -- one of the robin's calls -- to that of the flicker's "wikka, wikka." You wouldn't think they'd be similar but I find they are.
Northern Flicker full overview video ruclips.net/video/ommzXuEL54s/видео.html
Thank you for another very interesting video Lesley 😊 i will definitely share it
did they get their name from their tongues? the green ones here do the same
watch?v=MoNkaPs4sS4&t=34s
Just a few days ago, the next day after having watched your in-depth Norethern Flicker video, I was lucky enough to hear some "wicca wicca" calls right outside my window in the forest. Only due to your video was I able to discover who those birds making that adorable and fascinating call were! Thank you!
Those of us with access to wooded property and who don't own predatory pets should consider buying the specialty northern flicker nesting box that is mentioned in the in-depth video. These birds are in decline due to habitat loss, as Lesley mentions.
I enjoy birds very much. A nest of them in our neighbors tree changed my view on flickers. What a noisy pest while mating and nesting. I will be covering the hole in the tree before next season. If they want to nest there next year they will have to bore a new home.
I think I saw a Yellow Shafted Norther Flicker in my backyard today. I'm in Ottawa Canada. Is this even possible ?
Many years ago my father told me he saw a Flicker and he was thrilled because it was the one and only time he ever saw one! I am 73 and feed the birds in my yard. What a pleasant surprise 2 years ago when a pair of Flickers raised their family near me and visited my suet cakes daily! I was as thrilled as my father was many years ago!
We get northern flickers coming right to our window feeders, they are too cute!
Cooooool!!!
They sure are!
Do you see the different birds bringing their babies to the feeder? That happened the 2nd year that I had my suet feeder hanging on my balcony. 🙂
Watch for them in the spring.
Awakened 5 times between 5:30 - 7 over space of 2 weeks by sound of jackhammer on concrete. After convincing all my neighbors I'm crazy, discovered a flicker hammering on my chimney cap reverberated all the way down to my furnace. Buddy must have found himself a mate because after that last salvo I've slept undistrubed.
I’ve had 53 of them, a flock, in my yard two years ago. It was amazing to see so many in such a small place.....
Oh my good lord, wow. I'd be so excited if that happened here. Haha. Awesome 🐦🙂
I'd Be So Happy!
what about glited woodpecker 🤔☝️
@@LesleytheBirdNerd I saw pin grosbeak ☝️ cute 🥰
why do they eat ants 🐜 Lesley question ❓🤔
I look at and photograph the feathers I find in my yard - just yesterday I found a small black and brown spotted feather and now see that it was indeed a feather from a yellow shafted northern flicker. Last year I found only one yellow shafted primary wing feather. I throw them back into nature - they are illegal to keep. And all month long, I have been hearing that "wicka-wicka-wicka" sound - and so soft that it sounds like person saying it in a whisper! I never knew that was the flicker-flicker-flicker making that call! I love how the red on the head is almost shaped like a heart!
Yay another Flicker video! The Flicker is one of my favorite birds. I remember just starting my ornithology class in college when I saw a cute bird with polka dots on it’s chest, on the ground. I couldn’t wait to find out what bird it was and later that semester I realized I saw a female Northern Flicker. Such pretty birds! 🧡
The first one i saw i thought "clown" because of the colors dots etc.
3 days ago, I saw this bird for the first time in all my 62 years. Two of them showed up in my black tupelo tree, along with all the normal Robins, to feast on the bitter purple berries. The Robins come every year, the tree is always alive with them!
I had to Google this new bird with the black crescent moon on its chest. Now that I have heard its call here on the video, I recognize it from over the summer. I had mentioned to my husband a few times that I was hearing a strange bird call and had no idea who it was. Now I know. :)
The black crescent moon was the first feature to stand out to me when I first seen one 😊🌙
Can't say that I've knowingly seen one of these, but I found a feather once. A yellow, pointed, tail feather.
Still have that feather, a decade or so later.
...yeah, I'm a bird nerd too.
😊🇨🇦
Lucky! Feathers are treasures
I got all excited this morning when a Flicker visited my feeder for the first time. I've been a bird watcher for 40 years and was super surprised. Like the Red Bellied, he wasn't deterred by any other birds. Even the Blue Jays gave him space. Made my day.
Flickers land in our tree and eat all winter. What a pleasure to see them. Thanks Lesley, take care, 3 years later.
I don’t even have feeders and these birds have been visiting our backyard! This one is so beautiful to gaze at as it grazes through our lawn. Their call sounds like maniacal laughter. 🤭❤
A Flicker family about 10 years ago hammered their way into my storage shed going through the wood soffit. They made a substantial mess inside the shed which required moving about half of the shed's items out then cleaning off the poop. The shed now has cement Hardie board for soffits to prevent this from happening again. Gorgeous birds who occasionally visit our property.
Florence, Fiona and Finley are my sweeties (Northern Flickers). They have always been quite shy, but lately I’ve been on the sweetie patrol much more often (hawk migration). Now since they have seen me deter the hawks, they have become warmer with me. Just this morning Florence went fishing for worms- and only about 10 feet away! It is always such a lovely feeling when you can build trust with a flying friend. His cute white little bum bum gives me a happy chuckle every time he swoops around! It’s been a real blessing to watch this family grow and evolve as it is our first ever year with Flickers ☺️🕊️
I have the red-shafted flickers in my yard. They love suet and will occasionally get in my peanut tray.
they love peanuts out of the shell, we had them eating out of a large feeder
we had.
I enjoyed yet another of your beautifully filmed videos. We call them Yellow Hammer’s here in Alabama where they are the state bird. We Eve n mention them in the football cheer/chant for the University of Alabama (my beloved university). We say Rammer Jammer, Yellow Hammer, Give Em Hell Alabama. There is also a famous cocktail served in Tuscaloosa called the Yellowhammer. I may have enjoyed a few back in my university days. In the fall I put out dried mealworm feeders, PB and seed blocks and sunflower seed feeders that they enjoy visiting. I live on a mountain above the Cahaba River on the edge of the city which lets us enjoy an 8 minute commute downtown but still enjoy a woodland environment. We see 4-6 different woodpecker species here. They aren’t as friendly as some of my other visitors and I enjoyed seeing your close up shots.
I remember the first one I saw. A Red Shafted male, perched on my fence. Checking out my yard. Wow.
Later the day... The Wicka, Wicka Wicka.
They loved the suet.
And the many anthills.
A few years later, I was lucky enough to see a pair of juveniles.
Most years as early as early March a Northern Flicker will create quite a din in our neighborhood hammering on a metal roof or spouting.
They are more beautiful than you can imagine in person. Took my breath away.
I love seeing the Flickers visit our yard in GA, but they can be very sporadic. Was very happy to see one coming to dust bathe near one of our trees last year. It would come to the same spot at nearly the same time every night for about a week and go into a frenzy, rolling around in the dirt and mulch! So cool!
PS, This was also the first time I learned of birds “dust bathing”! Why do birds do this? Thanks!
They are very easy to attract with suet feeders. I lived in a busy apartment complex in Seattle with small area of woods nearby, and they were daily visitors to my 2nd floor balcony feeder. They would always come very early in the morning, but also from time to time throughout the day. The 2nd year I had the feeder up, all the birds were bringing the babies to the feeder once they fledged. The little babies would sit on the rail and beg! It was so cute.😁
Eventually their parents would quit feeding them and make them come to the feeder themselves.
Just saw a male and female in the neighbors yard. I’ve been seeing them every spring. Beautiful birds. Yellow shafted flickers.
Thank you Lesley. In northeastern Ontario, you see them most often on logging roads eating ants.
Thank you! So fun to learn more about these birds. Just witnessed them do a territorial dance I'm my backyard. Very fun! These birds like to hang out in my Russian olive trees in the winter and eat their berries.
Took me a while to identify this bird this morning because it wasn't listed in wood pecker section of my little book. Thank you for sharing this video because if I had any doubts you swept them away. He was chowing down on my porch suet cake!
Way Out West the red-shafted Northern Flicker is common in & out of town. One of the first birds I learned to ID at age 7. Noisy, rather shy & handsome. Good work again, Lesley!
We're just now welcoming them to our neighborhood in the Sacramento area. Wonderful harbinger of fall.
There're 2 red flickers that come to my backyard fairly often, I love seeing them.
Many years ago I had the privilege of examining a flicker up close during a wildlife rehabilitator class... these are magnificently beautiful birds. Thanks for your educational and entertaining videos, they're wonderful.
Several of these beauties visit my yard and garden in NE Ohio often. I hear them more than I see them. It's always a treat to see them stylin' in their fancy outfits.
I love those birds.
Beautiful birds the Flicker
I had not heard the name "yellow hammer". Thanks for sharing that interesting regional trivia.
This is a great video! I see them in my dense suburban neighborhood each year. They seem to like the pine trees and the utility poles. I think now they might be going after beetles and ants in them. They're a beautiful sight every time.
Beautiful birds.
I have seen them occasionally in Spring and Autumn. Habitat destruction here has kept them away with development.
Thanks for sharing.
I live in Chicago and been feeding birds awhile now. Never saw one until yesterday. 20° out and they were eating suet along with Parakeets and chikadees.
Great footage from your contributors, the Flickers are not as flashy as the Pileateds but still a great looking bird. Wisconsin has a very healthy population so Ive often taken them for granted but seeing these photos and vid clips I can see Ive been missing out.
They are so wary, I get way more close looks at Pileateds than I do Flickers, seems all you ever get to see is the white "taillight" as they take off from the ground. Used to watch one hammer on an ant hill in the front yard but I had to do it from inside, every darn time I tried to sneak outside with the binos it caught me and flew off, but they sure do love them some ants.
I know hey, I cant seem to get close at all to the ones around here either
@@LesleytheBirdNerd : We need an ant costume, lol
Your video`s pop up in my recommendations very often. I still think about your farewell video a few months ago you posted. I will always enjoy your videos and I hope they will hang around for a long time. Every good thing must have a conclusion. I wish the best for you. But I know you have a passion, and I expect you can`t hold back forever. Thank you.
oh, lesley. thanks for another amazing vid
Thank you so much Elliot
your videos are amazing Lesley 😀
Anyone... at 25 seconds, what kind of evergreen tree is at the left of the screen? Really neat how it sweeps the ground. Bet it is wonderful for the birds in the winter.
It looks to be a type of Thuya Giant Evergreen .
If you do an image search, via google lens,it maybe even more accurate.
I really appreciate your calm voice, & the bird education!!! I watch your video s for a calming feeling, thank you 😊
Aw, darnit. I've spent the last two weeks keeping my eyes peeled for a woodpecker with a 30-inch wingspan!
Wouldn't be hard to spot that's for sure. 😂
@@LesleytheBirdNerd I've never seen northern flicker dance I'm sure it's amazing
North Idaho here. We have had several here in our yard. They are lovely.
I'm seeing them more and more every year.
My husband built me a flicker house following all the required specs. I painted it and got all the wood chips that is suggested for the bottom, crosshatching the sides for young to be able to climb out. I spent most of spring, on a ladder, clearing out stupid house sparrows every 2nd day!😡 Finally “ corked “ the entrance as I was sure the window of beating was over
Will give it a go next year :)
🤞🏽
One of my favorite visitors. They're hilarious!
Flickers are so cool! Thanks for so many wonderful and enjoyable bird videos!
This all is very interesting Lesley! They’re such cute birds!
Thank you Matthew 🙂
@@LesleytheBirdNerd are you allowed to give me your email? I just have a lot of questions about birding and you with other birds that I’m very curious about.
Lesley, thanks for more info on northern flickers, I do hope that this bird will come back to our feeders soon, I miss watching them, cheers.
Excellent info Leslie! This summer for the first time in years, we have two mating pairs of Flickers - and both have two juveniles each. With 8 flickers joining our 'woodpecker menagerie' this summer it's quite the auditory sensation around the property (we also have pileated, red-headed, red-breasted, downy, hairy, and yellow-bellied sapsuckers). All of the species inter-mingle fairly well, but there definitely is a pecking order. lol
This is such an amazing short packed full of useful information about this birds. I became curious about this guys after finding 2 in my backyard and wanting to photograph them started to research which birds they were... and eventually started birding and setting bird baths, and feeders around my house.
I've been watching your videos and am impressed. I try to do something similar with my photos -- I was a journalist for 32 years and still like to have informative captions for my images. Of course, when I get to writing these captions, I often end up writing short articles for the first image, providing details about the birds, animals, plants and flowers, as well as insects and spiders I photograph.
Thank you for posting these videos. They are both a joy to watch and an educational experience. You rock!
Thanks Ted
Wonderful video! I got to talk to some ornithologists at the beach this past week. They were studying and surveying the birds that were nesting on the dunes! Thank you Lesley! Have a good week!
That is awesome Coby. What a great oppotuinity you had to connect with a qualified person in the field. 🐦🙂 you have a good week too
Just this morning we had a family of three show up in our trees. Magnificent
Just saw my first group of these in Southwest Iowa, the red nape is very distinctive. We've never seen them before, thank you for this and the other video you've done on them. We're not birders but I can see the allure.
How cool! I live in Huntsville, thanks for mentioning our state bird! ❤️🤟🏻
I live Mt Rainier National park and do Project Feederwatch each year. My favorite birds are the flickers and I spend the first couple weeks each season documenting my hybrids. I get a lot of all teds, and hybrids, but have yet to see a full yellow shafted bird. We get "gap winds" from Eastern Washington over the Cascades that affect the community I live in and I figure an occasional yellow gets blown down the pass. I definitely have an unusual number of hybrid individuals each year...lots of fun!
In Vancouver BC my family has suet feeders and we have red shafted flickers every day. Had as many as five of them as the young ones were just able to fly.
I love the wild and beautiful call of the flicker!! Great birds!! 💙💛❤️💚💜🤎🧡💙💛❤️💚💜🤎🧡
I really love these birds and have since I first noticed them as a kid. They are so pretty!
Love this video on Northern Flickers , they are one of my favorites! We see them everyday eating ants in the yard. So happy they are around! Thank you Lesley!🕊
I live on long Island, ny and we have these beauties!!!!
Never seen that type of woodpecker! It’s really nice ! Thanks for sharing !
They use the ant like a scrub brush , to keep mites off and their feathers in tip top shape .
There was a fledgling in my backyard and I didn't realize it when I let my dogs out. They didn't hurt it but it was a bit damp from their investigation. I rescued it and it made it to a tree safely.
We have spent most of the Covid lockdown being amused by flickers and this spring enjoying the youngsters. My favourite bird !!
I love the civil war story .. thanks Leslie for all you do for us ! I love your channel
This was great. I've seen one of these twice in my yard, and had no idea what kind of bird it was.
Thank you Raphael 🙂
where dose yellow hammer name come from 🤔
Wow... that tongue thing.. fascinating !! * yet another awesome video .. great visuals and truly interesting facts ..
Love love love flickers!! So happy when I watch them with there families, foraging for food or just eating the bird seed i put out. Enjoy there calls and there beauty!!! Thanks for the video clips!!
We have a lot up here in the residential areas due to a good forest canopy.
This spring one of them took a liking to our metal chimney cap to let presumably a potential mate know it was in the neighborhood .
The sound does go all the way down into the basement which I wouldn't mind but the cap is almost 30 yrs old and a puncture in any dent would mean a leak into the basement. So if I can get outside soon enough I clap my hands together like a gunshot to haze it to another sound maker like the topside of a utility pole at the back alley which they have used before numerous times.
And at least every couple days at least one will pop by for some water out of the metal beer keg top aka birdbath, out on the patio deck, next to our primary blue spruce.
It was so coincidental that I watched your previous video on these birds the same day I saw one for the first time. I love your channel. Any chance they are also called yellow-belly sap suckers? I saw that in an old birding guide. Fowlers I think.
They’re also called Yellow Hammer. Alabama state bird.
I've never seen flickers dance before but I'm sure it looks amazing 😀🤔
There was a pair of these near my house, I love these lil guys XD They have such beautiful calls and colors!
These are beautiful and intelligent birds to watch. A female and male like to come to my squirrel proof sunflower chip feeder and steal from it. They have figured out how to balance upside down without putting too much pressure on the feeder (which closes the openings)! I was able to watch the first time one of them figured this out. It took her less than a minute. Very impressive birds.
Really cool birds and fun to watch. I put up a next box for Kestrels a few years ago. No joy with that other than starlings building nest upon the wood chips within early this spring then moving on. Just the other day however spotted a Flicker in it (totally unexpected). A quick check when I could revealed 3 eggs within. Awesome.
Thanks Leslie your a joy to listen too 🇺🇸🌴😎🇺🇸🐬
Great description and I really like watching them - really striking colours and markings. I was happy see several of them show up in mid-March this year from migration in one of the areas I regularly go birding. Thanks for sharing!
Hi, Leslie. Great shares. One of my favorite birds. Thanks for sharing! Stay Healthy!
I just saw one
Thank you for yet another wonderful bird moment.
These are my favorite birds. Thank you!
Thx for another wonderful video! Excellent!
This was so interesting! Thanks! I heard one the other day and was so happy to know what the call was, from your video last week. 🙂
Hey thank you. That's great about you being able to identify their calls since watching my last video 🐦🙂 I hope you having a lovely summer.
I actually got a few pictures of one at my bird feeder this winter. I didn't think they did that.
Love Flickers🤗🥰🙏
I am enjoying this channel more than ever right now. For the past 3 months or so the county I live in and many surrounding counties are experiencing a mass bird die off. The dept. of Natural resources have asked everyone to take down their bird feeders and baths until they can figure out what is going on. I have seen several dead birds over the last months displaying crusty eyes which is the main symptom of this event. Its very sad and I miss my bird feeder visitors, even the squirrels.
Been hearing a lot about this as well, not in my area but on line. I hope this can all get sorted sooner than later
If most of their diets are ants, I should have gobs of these guys living in my backyard and in my neighborhood. I’ve only seen one in one of my trees this year. Love woodpeckers…such personalities!
Just beautiful birds.. not too many in my yard.. ( that I see) .. but hear them all the time.. nice video as usual.. thanks for all you do ☮️
While very familiar with the "wicka wicka" call, I was surprised to hear the other call here. This will confound me no end as it seems so similar to the call of the pileated?
I thought it sounded like a pileated, too!
Really loved the info, I see them in the yard in upstate NY sometimes but I didn't know all of these facts about them. Thank you and best wishes!
As usual, a fabulous and VERY informative video, Lesley. Thank you!
Love dancing birds. I have heard the wicka wicka song and now know the bird. We have lots of ants
Thank you. Lovely video for a lovely bird. We have them in Central Park
They are beautiful birds. Awesome video!!
Fantastic Leslie!!! Absolutely fantastic!
Great video Lesley! We have a lot of these around, and we were wondering why one of our local American Robins was trying to attack a Northern Flicker the other day - he was really mad at him and chased him away.
UNBELIEVABLE!
Thanks for the follow up video on these remarkable birds.
I sometimes mix up the "weet, weet, weet," -- one of the robin's calls -- to that of the flicker's "wikka, wikka." You wouldn't think they'd be similar but I find they are.
great video Lesley...highly enjoyable! Cheers from BC