This beauty spent the winter here! He competed with a squirrel for a home in a neighbouring tree, but the squirrel won out. It was funny to watch the Flicker toss out the leaves from the nest, and then watch the squirrel scurry up the tree with more leaves. The mixed seed in the feeders helped to keep this bird alive. In the spring we could see and hear him tap loudly on the hydro poles calling for a mate. He was rather anxious as he began this tapping long before the Red-winged blackbirds arrived!!