Red Car Property: Northern Flicker

Photo: Diane Edwardson, March 9, 2013.  This out of the ordinary bird, observed  in a California Black Walnut Tree on the northern end of the Red Car Property, appears to be a female Northern Flicker.  (Click on photos to enlarge.) 



Photo: Diane Edwardson, March 9. 2013.  According to the Cornell Lab or Ornithology, Northern Flickers are large woodpeckers who migrate through Southern