Northern flicker

Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, April 9, 2021.


Several showed up in the yard today, grabbed a drink at the pond after drilling down in the dirt.
Colaptes auratus
Although it can climb up the trunks of trees and hammer on wood like other woodpeckers, the Northern Flicker prefers to find food on the ground. Ants are its main food, and the flicker digs in the dirt to find them. It uses its long barbed tongue to lap up the ants.
Source -Cornell Lab of Ornithology- All About Birds

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