Northern Flickers

Northern Flickers feeding October 21, 2019, Governors Island, New York. "Northern Flickers eat mainly insects, especially ants and beetles that they gather from the ground. They also eat fruits and seeds, especially in winter... Northern Flickers don’t act like typical woodpeckers. They mainly forage on the ground, sometimes among sparrows and blackbirds. When flushed, flickers often perch erect on thin horizontal branches rather than hitching up or around a tree trunk. Flickers do fly Iike most woodpeckers do, rising and falling smoothly as they intersperse periods of flapping with gliding." The Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Music: Composer: Robert Schumann
Song: Scenes from Childhood, Op. 15
Performer: Donald Betts :

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