likes to hammer on stucco and I hope it gets a splitting headache as it does so. It’s an attractive bird, though.
Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus). More than 100 informal common names are known for this bird, including yellowhammer, clape, gaffer woodpecker, harry-wicket, heigh-ho, wake-up, walk-up, wick-up, yarrup, and gawker bird.