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Among woodpeckers, Northern flickers are ground-foraging champs, especially when it comes to ants. Unlike typical woodpeckers, they hop around on open areas or forest floors, using their sharp, curved beaks to poke into soil or flip over debris.
Once they locate an ant colony, they bury their long bill into the soil and jab that long, sticky tongue in, slurping up ants and larvae. They’ll even hammer at anthills to break them open, or forage rotting wood for carpenter ants. An adaptation to expand the food sources in their territory, that most woodpeckers don't utilize.
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Northern Flicker found at Griffin Family Nature Preserve. Infrequent sighting for me. Showing off the yellow on his tail feathers.
iNaturalist link www.inaturalist.org/observations/176608471
Jenny Pansing photos
Young male (red moustache) suddenly appeared. Joy! And departed.
Still practicing placing my left hand on the lens. Lens and camera mounted on Jobu-Design gimbal head or swing-head or tripod-head on heavy duty tripod. Taking advantage of a spot of sun, although not from the best angle.
But so fun!
"Northern Flickers [woodpeckers] don’t habitually visit bird feeders, but you can find them in backyards and at bird baths. If your backyard has a mixture of trees and open ground, or if it’s near woods, you may find Northern Flickers simply by walking around the wooded edges."
Cornell Lab's www.allaboutbirds.org
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This Northern flicker landed on one of the fence posts next to my wife's garden. Neighbor's tree made a nice backdrop!
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Northern Flickers spend lots of time on the ground, and when in trees they’re often perched upright on horizontal branches instead of leaning against their tails on a trunk. They fly in an up-and-down path using heavy flaps interspersed with glides, like many woodpeckers
Surrey BC Canada
Taken through the front window, as the Flicker preened, scratched and stretched for over 10 minutes. The Flicker was very methodical in preening, it appeared as though every feather was worked on.
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A female Northern Flicker (Red-Shafted) flew in and landed on our Mr. Adams Pine tree, before flying to the Suet feeder.
She came by to join my two male flicker friends.
She is in almost in the exact same pose as I took of one of the males a little while back!
Northern Flicker males engaged in a courting battle over a female flicker a few branches over. This is something Ive seen several times, but I have never been in good spots for photos. Today these guys decided to hash it out on the big maple tree outside my bedroom window, basically at eye level. These two males would stare at each other, then start to bob up and down, side to side while cackling at each other. They would do this for a few seconds at a time then take a rest. Its obviously much harder work on them then it appears ( im sure it being near zero for temperatures didnt help either ) because after several minutes of dancing and flying around to different branches as the female moved, they both started to get less into it and moved much less.
Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) feeding in the grass at the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary in the Bow River Valley in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
13 May, 2017.
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This male northern yellow shafted flicker (Colaptes auratus) seems to have laid claim to this hollow tree, going in and out regularly as well as calling loudly while perching in the entrance. Announcing to all comers that this is his.
New Britain Pa.
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Northern Flickers are large, brown woodpeckers with a gentle expression and handsome black-scalloped plumage. On walks, don’t be surprised if you scare one up from the ground. It’s not where you’d expect to find a woodpecker, but flickers eat mainly ants and beetles, digging for them with their unusual, slightly curved bill. When they fly you’ll see a flash of color in the wings – yellow if you’re in the East, red if you’re in the West – and a bright white flash on the rump.
Surrey BC Canada
It's only a couple of weeks now until I will be back up on the Moray Firth. Sunrises will be a little more challenging now though as Spring is now here and the sun will be up a lot earlier. Fortunately it seems that I have naturally become and early riser. I can't wait to get the drone up and over the coastline of the Moray Firth. There are so many new compositions waiting to be photographed. It will feel like being in a new location altogether! Taken from the clifftops of Portknockie in Morayshire, Scotland.