Being very quiet I happened upon this bird without it seeing me behind some bushes. I just figured it as some kind of woodpecker but this is the first I've ever seen one of these. I was very excited to not only see it but to get some spectacular photos of it's different profiles as well as its behavior. From reading about this bird later it is very natural to see these birds doing exactly what it was doing which is feeding on ants and other insects on the ground. And here I thought it was just a confused woodpecker. This particular species is actually a "Yellow-Shafted" Northern Flicker as opposed to its cousin out west the "Red-Shafted" Northern Flicker.