[JoeProBono]

Birds Fighting, Rondeau Provincial Park, Canada

[cripplecreek]

Pecker fight.

[cajungirl]

Gorgeous, and that is the red heads tongue the flicker has!! Never saw a flicker,would love to.

[incredulous joe]

Never seen the flicker ~ maybe headed north this summer

[MomwithHope]

An amazing picture. It doesn’t surprise me the flicker won. We live in the Michigan woods where many woodpeckers are common, I watched a flicker just the other day. Many years ago before we put a screen on the top of our chimney a flicker came down in and was rattling around in our wood stove. I put on my husbands heavy leather gloves and got him out, he was so covered in soot I couldn’t tell what he was until I started washing him off in the sink. I was amazed at how strong he was, especially his legs. I could barely hang onto him and I’m no slouch. For him to grab the tongue is natural, flickers eat many worms out of the ground besides tree bugs. Always easy to identify with the white spot at the base of the tail, they are usually flying away from you.

[goat granny]

Beautiful yellow winged Flicker...Had one fly into my window when I was on the farm. Usually this resulted in a broken neck, dead bird. I went out to see what crashed into the window and found the Flicker. This was the first one I had ever seen. Picked it up and it was totally limp, but its foot clasped onto my finger and wouldn't let go. I carried it around for about 5 minutes and felt it start to move. Put him into a hole in the sugar maple in the front yard and a couple of more minutes and he flew away. The smaller birds would break their necks but the flicker is quite a large bird. They only knocked themselves out. I also found out there are 2 kinds of Flickers. Yellow, which was on the farm and also a red winged Flicker...This gave me a great excuse for not washing windows anymore. Dirty windows are easier to avoid...:O)
Thats my excuse for dirty windows and I am sticking to it..

[LadyPilgrim]

Beautiful!!! Absolutely beautiful! Thank you Joe!

BTW....The Flicker is Alabama’s State bird, so it doesn’t surprise me he won the battle. :-)
And, he’s also called the Yellowhammer!

[LadyPilgrim]

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