By Margie Young More than the Movies
Pictured is Dr. Meg Hatch from Penn State who will be giving a presentation on birds at the Dietrich’s next Science on Screen event on June 5.
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Out my kitchen window yesterday, my gaze went to a bird on the lawn that was hammering its beak into the ground, unperturbed that I was watching. I suddenly got excited, because I thought it might be a flicker, a woodpecker I have not seen for several years. At first I thought it might be a mourning dove. It was a similar size. But then I could see the moon shaped crest of black on the breast, the stroke of red on its head, and its speckled breast. It definitely was a flicker.