When I looked outside yesterday to check activity at the feeders I saw a speckled bird at one of the suet cages. Speckled birds in this neck of the woods are Northern Flickers. We have the red-shafted variety here, but there's also a yellow-shafted flicker.
Yesterday's bird was a boy -- could tell that because of his dashing red mustache.
Flickers, by the way, are woodpeckers. They forage on the ground (and on rooftops) more than most other woodpeckers.
Doodled from a photo by Minette Layne.
