often taps out a message to his mate. He cares little for 
the groans and growls of those, whose beauty sleep is being 
disturbed by his signals, except to chuckle his “wick-er, 
wick-er” as his sharp ears get an answer from far away. 
Yakima—Taken by Mrs. Granville Ross Pike 
_A Flicker Too Young to Flit 
Then his trumpet call of “kee-yer’ may announce that he 
is on his wings to meet her. 
Once a woman risked a shaking ladder to sihens twenty 
feet to a place where she could peer down into a hole in a 
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