Look Who Came For Lunch!

This afternoon a pair of Northern Flickers had lunch at our place. One flew off just as I got out my camera, but the other stayed around for another fifteen minutes, busily probing the ground looking for insects, and hopping ever closer to where I stood with my camera.

This is about as close as it got when, suddenly, a chipmunk appeared between us and the Flicker began to retreat down the hill again.

Northern Flickers aren't a rare species, in fact they are often called the "Common Flicker" but we don't see them that much around these parts and it was fun to watch him as he relentlessly dug bugs out of the soil.