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Back for a local meal

This Northern Flicker woodpecker — a yellow-shafted one — aims its beak towards an approaching fly, taking a break from digging in grass of a Young's Beach front yard for its standard food source, ants.
Flicker eating fly
Back from its winter holiday down south, a Northern Flicker woodpecker prepares to dine on a Lac La Biche fly as it roots for ants in a Young's Beach yard on Saturday. Image: Rob McKinley
This Northern Flicker woodpecker — a yellow-shafted one — aims its beak towards an approaching fly, taking a break from digging in grass of a Young's Beach front yard for its standard food source, ants.
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