The Beak Report: Northern Flicker

We have hit a bit of a birding lull in the Harris home. This was to be expected as most of the spring migratory birds have left the area; however, we are continuing to enjoy regular visitors to the back yard especially  a couple of northern cardinals (male and female) that share the bird feeder together. Common Grackles are numerous and bully the other birds but are less of a nuisance after we switched to safflower seeds in our bird feeders and jury-rigged the suet feeder to only allow birds that like or will hang inverted to eat, like woodpeckers and Tom Cruise up against a MIG fighter- is anyone reading this!  Ahem, The lull was broken yesterday when a Northern Flicker visited the yard. Tara was really stoked as was Olivia and myself.  Timothy is on location in TN and he will be providing a report on the birds that he has enjoyed very soon...