18 April 2024
In case you haven’t seen, northern sparkles (Colaptes auratus) are loud proper now.
The Northern Flicker may be very vocal in spring throughout which its lengthy name (kick, kick, kick, kick, kick…) and drumming could also be heard from greater than a kilometer away [0.62 mile]. Householders typically categorical annoyance at people who take to hammering on metallic chimneys and gates early within the morning, however thankfully this territorial commercial solely lasts for a couple of weeks in spring.
Each sexes of sparkles make a “jungle” name and drum loudly to draw a mate and set up territory. When drumming on wooden they sound like this.
LOUD is vital and metropolis sparkles have found out that hammering on metallic is louder than wooden.
They hammer on streetlights. (This one stopped drumming for his {photograph}).
They hammer on the metallic covers on electrical poles. (Hey, watch out!)
They hammered on the metallic hoods of those outdated ballpark lights each spring. The lights had been changed at Magee Discipline in 2018. I by no means received a photograph of the sparkles on the floodlights however right here’s one in all a red-tailed hawk.
Sparkles will be annoying when heard throughout the road, and worse than annoying when nearer to house.
Welcome to my mornings lately. ?
Audio clip is taken from the lounge as we speak – Northern Flicker drums on the metallic chimney cowl.
Watch out if listening with headphones, will get loud.Feminine Flicker photograph to point out who was making the noise, audio is from 2 April 2024. pic.twitter.com/yi5TnTsqzr
— Sue (@CameraTrapSue) April 2, 2024
Who’s making that drumming noise? A northern flicker.
(credit are within the captions)
