Day 27, Cycle 1

Here's another frequent visitor to our front yard. He is a flicker...I think a yellow shafted flicker. Doesn't he have pretty markings! Woody has learned something with this post...and the proof is in the bottom picture. He did not know that flickers forage on the ground unlike others in the woodpecker family. They feed on ants and other insects that live in the ground, which they pull out of their nests with their long tongues. Woody said that we could use more flickers in our yard! We seem to have a heavy population of ants...of several sizes. The flicker also enjoyed eating suet from the suet cage when it was hanging in the tree and then when the squirrels knocked that down (rascally squirrels!), he enjoyed pecking at the suet in the cage on the ground.

Woody got up early (too early according to him...as he has felt sleepy the rest of the day, but has been unable to grab a cat nap). He walked out to the movie theatre and back...so 12 miles. After he came home he waited around till it was 9am so he could go to the library and stop at the local vegetable market. He has read and watched a DVD or two this afternoon and evening. He's reading as I type this. That's about it for his day today!