Flicker

Glimpses from the edge. 6.

March 27, 2009

I think I was wrong this morning about the flicker making a racket pecking on something. And I am so happy to be wrong: the Pileated just landed on the suet. The Pileateds haven’t been around for months!! and I’ve missed them. After scarfing suet, he flew off into the ravine to peck at snags [...]

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Glimpses from the edge. 5.

March 27, 2009

It is extremely noisy this morning. The air is not still. The stream in the ravine is rushing loudly. Herons and seagulls and robins and hummingbirds, plus a flicker pounding away on a snag somewhere all add to the cacophony. The Stellar’s Jays are begging for peanuts and the crows want a piece of that, [...]

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