<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>A female Yellow-Shafted Flicker was at my feeders today at 1 pm. It was eating suet, much of it Flicker-style, poking its bill in the fat, and then sitting there, I assume sticking her tongue inside and lapping up the beef fat. (My suet feeder is on the trunk of a tree which I believe woodpeckers prefer.) She also ate some suet in the traditional woodpecker style.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Then she flew to a tubular peanut feeder. She took some time figuring it out, but then stayed there extracting morsels for a much longer time than the usual visitors to the peanut larder. Perhaps she really needed to feed. I don't even see Flickers at my feeders in the summer.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Don Grussing</div><div>Minnetonka</div></div></body></html>