Backyard tales...the Northern Flicker in November.
A male Red-shafted Northern Flicker in the backyard on a dead branch of the Garry oak tree. I’m hearing and seeing seeing these birds almost daily in the Fall/Winter season.
The Northern Flicker is a common bird in many areas of the Pacific Northwest with two subspecies: the Red-shafted Flicker (C. a. cafer) of western North America and the Yellow-shafted Flicker (C. a. auratus) of the east and far north. Their ranges are roughly divided by the Rocky Mountains except in the northern boreal forest, where the yellow-shafted range extends west across most of Alaska. (Source Ebird.org)
Photography: Nikon Z50, Nikkor 200-500, @500mm, f5.6
Backyard tales...the Northern Flicker in November.
A male Red-shafted Northern Flicker in the backyard on a dead branch of the Garry oak tree. I’m hearing and seeing seeing these birds almost daily in the Fall/Winter season.
The Northern Flicker is a common bird in many areas of the Pacific Northwest with two subspecies: the Red-shafted Flicker (C. a. cafer) of western North America and the Yellow-shafted Flicker (C. a. auratus) of the east and far north. Their ranges are roughly divided by the Rocky Mountains except in the northern boreal forest, where the yellow-shafted range extends west across most of Alaska. (Source Ebird.org)
Photography: Nikon Z50, Nikkor 200-500, @500mm, f5.6