Friday (Northern) Flicker

Northern Flicker fun fact (courtesy of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s All About Birds website):

“Like most woodpeckers, Northern Flickers drum on objects as a form of communication and territory defense. In such cases, the object is to make as loud a noise as possible, and that’s why woodpeckers sometimes drum on metal objects. One Northern Flicker in Wyoming could be heard drumming on an abandoned tractor from a half-mile away.”