Chirps and Cheeps

Happy New Year! I wish you and yours a happy and healthy 2012!

What a nice way to start out the new year - we finally had a Northern Flicker venture up to the feeders near the house today.  I've seen a few flickers around the yard, up in the sumac, around the perimeter of the woods, but never up at the feeders. I've tried to entice them with bark butter too!  Now, it could be coincidence - probably not - but I hung a new feeder this morning, given to me from my son via a gift card to our friends at Wild Birds Unlimited.  Maybe the female flicker noticed the new addition to our bistro and came up to check things out.  Whatever it was that attracted her, she was happily enjoying a seed cake when I happened to check the feeders.  I quickly grabbed my camera and was able to capture a few shots.