Dennis and Tweets,

I have marveled at the large numbers of flickers at the Hundred Acre Woods (NE Lakewood, Pierce Co.) in the late summer and into the fall each year. This year they seemed to stay in family groups until the first week of October, but have now dissipated somewhat. Last year they seemed to start spreading out by mid September. Maybe the weather?

-Rolan

Dennis Paulson <dennispaulson at comcast.net> wrote:
Hello, tweets.

I have flickers coming to my suet feeders regularly, but I've noticed
that they often come en masse. Just now four flickers (3 males and a
female) swooped into the yard virtually as a group, and that seems much
more often to be the case (but not always 4) than coming as
individuals. They are somewhat aggressive to one another, but not that
much. I suppose it's quite possible they are a family group, but I
didn't realize they stayed in association this late in the fall. Has
anyone else seen this phenomenon?

Dennis Paulson
1724 NE 98 St.
Seattle, WA 98115
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Rolan Nelson
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