This afternoon I caught a glimpse of this fellow in my front yard. I’d never seen anything like him before.
Northern Flicker--photo from Wikipedia
And in perusing a bird site to find the Northern Flicker, I came across the answer to another yard mystery. Mom, the biggish brown “wren” we saw is actually a Brown Thrasher (state bird of Georgia, apparently). You learn something new everyday.
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2 thoughts on “Nature Study–Flickers and Thrashers”
Mystery solved, yay. What pretty birds they are. God is good.
Love,
Grandma Rie
Neat! Rose loves watching the birds in front of our house (there’s a little wooded area between our neighborhood and the highway). We get an amazing variety when we remember to fill our bird feeder. 😉
Misselthwaite Matters 
Mystery solved, yay. What pretty birds they are. God is good.
Love,
Grandma Rie
Neat! Rose loves watching the birds in front of our house (there’s a little wooded area between our neighborhood and the highway). We get an amazing variety when we remember to fill our bird feeder. 😉