Bird Watching: Flicker Behavior, 1 by MoogleTree

MoogleTree wrote:
This happened last month for nearly the entire month. I am curious. Here are two female northern flickers and they are facing off. They stare at each other head on, then sideways until one moves. As soon as the other moves, the second goes after her. They face off again or somersault and dive through the trees. Normally, flickers are respectful of other birds, but these two did not care. The huge crows here had to get out of the way for these two. If one mounted on a suet feeder, she had about 5 seconds till the other girl moved her off. Sometimes, they had a truce and would eat at the same time on two different feeders. Otherwise, it was on. They even did a dive roll under my husband's chin trying to get at each other. Has anyone ever seen this? Are they fighting for food or a male? I believe a male has already established himself here - he mows at our chimney enough :P