The ever lovely and common northern flicker. This one let me get close and some decent looks.
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Ooh, I didn’t know this bird, so pretty. From what I understand, it’s a kind of woodpecker ?
Indeed it is. Very neat birds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_flicker
Yup a woodpecker. There are two varieties in the US too. In the East we have the yellow-shafted variety and in the West they have the red-shafted. They can interbreed and their offspring can have a mix of red and yellow. Definitely a pretty woodpecker.
These bastards are the ones blasting holes in all my soffits. The are dedicated tho
