Day 12: Gilded Flicker

Mechanical pencil, 8x10 on sketch paper

Here is another bird we see so much in our backyard that we tend to not take many pictures of it. But they are pretty eye-catching with their polka-dotted suits, yellow-tinged tails and bright red slashes across the cheeks. Plus they have this distinctively loud, panicked-siren-shriek they make whenever they fly in attack the hummingbird feeder. You can imagine that our tiny little hummingbirds make way for them when they dive in.