Flickers everywhere!
So yesterday I looked out my window in the morning and noticed a bird hopping around and pecking on the lawn. I got the binoculars out and it was a Common Flicker. This is a bird that is in the woodpecker family but tends to forage for food on the ground rather than in trees. This was kind of neat as I had only ever seen one other at the house before. Then I got looking around the lawn and noticed five more. Okay, must admit, this made the bird nerd in me very excited. But the best is yet to come. Later in the afternoon, I walked out my front door and, honest to goodness, at least a dozen and very likely a dozen and a half flickers flew up out of my lawn. I couldn't believe it! I don't know if they commonly group up like that or not. Maybe they were just passing thru as they migrated south as I haven't seen any today. Either way, it was a neat thing to see.