. Birds in literature . Flicker. Golden-Winged Woodpecker A marked April note, proceeding sometimes from themeadows, but more frequently from the rough pasturesand borders of the woods, is the call of the high-hole or golden-shafted woodpecker It is a succession of short notes rapidly uttered, as if the bird said, if-if-if-if-if-if-if. . The high-hole is not so much a wood- pecker as a ground-pecker. He subsists largely on antsand crickets, and does not appear till they are to be found. Burroughs. Birds and Poets. • How that single sound peoples and enriches all thewoods and fields! They are n
. Birds in literature . Flicker. Golden-Winged Woodpecker A marked April note, proceeding sometimes from themeadows, but more frequently from the rough pasturesand borders of the woods, is the call of the high-hole or golden-shafted woodpecker It is a succession of short notes rapidly uttered, as if the bird said, if-if-if-if-if-if-if. . The high-hole is not so much a wood- pecker as a ground-pecker. He subsists largely on antsand crickets, and does not appear till they are to be found. Burroughs. Birds and Poets. • How that single sound peoples and enriches all thewoods and fields! They are no longer the same fields andwoods that they were. This note really quickens whatwas dead. It seems to put life into the withered grassand bare twigs and henceforth the days shall not be asthey have been. It is like the note of an alarm clockset last fall so as to wake nature up at exactly this date,U-p, up, up, up, up, up, up. Thoreau. Spring.^^ Audubon describes its song as a prolonged joviallaugh. Mrs. Wright give
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