One of the four species of woodpeckers that puts in a regular appearance in my backyard does a minimum of wood-pecking. Indeed, it spends more time probing in the grass or cocking its head to find ...

All types of lamps suffer with flicker, LEDs included. Mains frequency feed-through onto the DC drive signal, or low frequency effects as the PWM signal is dimmed can both cause LED outputs to suffer ...

For unfamiliarity among common birds in our area, the northern flicker must surely take the prize. Flickers are abundant at this time of year, but judging from the questions I get about birds, many ...

As the sparkling, golden days of October pass, so do migrating birds winging their way south to warmer wintering grounds. Our feeders are back up swaying in the cool breeze. Down from higheraltitude ...

The common flicker is an uncommon woodpecker. I found a bright yellow feather in the woods the other day. At first I thought it w as from a molting goldfinch, but realized it was too big. I decided it ...