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"Tight-rope" Walker

On a beautiful late summer day, this Yellow-shafted Flicker (Northern Flicker), and two of his family were working over this tree at Stony Creek Metropark, Michigan.

 

This medium-sized woodpecker likes to eat ants and beetles, and I've often seen them on the ground as well as in the trees, looking for insects to eat.

 

They give a distinctive "wacka-wacka" call.

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Uploaded on September 23, 2015
Taken on September 21, 2015