#Amazing

Unlike other woodpeckers, the Northern Flickers are the only woodpeckers that frequently feed on the ground. There, it uses its long, slightly curved beak to probe into the soil, anthills, and rotting wood for ants, grubs, and other invertebrates. Ants make up much of its diet during the nesting season: one flicker's stomach was found to contain more than 5,000 ants! Flickers often break into underground ant colonies to get at the nutritious larvae there, hammering at the soil the way other woodpeckers drill into wood.
All Photos were taken with the Canon 90D and the Sigma APO DG 70-300mm lens, usually at 200-300mm and various ISO readings at F5.6.