Creamer's Field was cloaked in cool fog this morning, but bloomed into a gorgeous and warm afternoon. We captured another 'first-of-season' today: a Yellow-shafted Northern Flicker! Five woodpecker species occur in Interior Alaska. The Northern Flicker is the largest and only migratory species; this Yellow-shafted subspecies migrates to the eastern US for the winter months. It also does most of it's foraging on the ground and even perches on horizontal branches like a songbird!
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