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They will definitely have a houseful if they all successfully hatch.

This pair of Northern Flickers (Colaptes auratus) were among several that were flitting about in a bare tree at a local park this Spring. I posted a shot of three of them earlier. These birds were quite a distance away for this shot, across a body of water, but it helped that they were in direct sunlight.

This Northern Flicker was seen in the Countrywood/Bancroft neighborhood of Walnut Creek, California

Montenegro,Lake Biograd

Cattedrale Metropolitana di Santa Maria Assunta

Siena

Lago Maggiore

Stresa

Piemonte

Alhambra

Granada

A Northern Flicker scans its surroundings before foraging on the ground.

Female northern flicker.

Have a great weekend all! Keep on flickering :)

Bonne fin de semaine à tous :)

A Flicker visited our suet bird feeder - such a magnificent bird!

Still a bit of suet on the tip of it's beak!

Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore

Venezia

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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Red-shafted Flicker

Photographed in the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona.

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LaBelle, Idaho

Carpintero de campo

Picapalo de campo

Field flicker

Pica-pau-do-campo

Scientific classification:

Kingdom:Animalia

Phylum:Chordata

Class:Aves

Order:Piciformes

Family:Picidae

Genus:Colaptes

Species:C. campestris

Atlántida, Canelones, Uruguay

A Northern Flicker works hard on making a nest in this tree.

Campo Cecina

Carrara

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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.

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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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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!

Thank Engilis Photos. This is a Northern Flicker, not a Gilded Flicker.

From the garden of the house of my father in law in Garatucaia

Angra Dos Reis

Rio de Janeiro

I do so love Acer Trees. The only snag is I have to try and protect them from the salt winds as I live on the coast. They also like a bit of shade, but as I have a walled garden that helps. They don't like chalk soil, so I have to grow them in pots. It is a challenge and probably not really sustainable but the colours in the Autumn are so beautiful it is worth the effort. The sun through this one made it look like flickering flames.

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This Northern flicker was seen in the Countrywood/Bancroft neighborhood of Walnut Creek, California.

Northern Flicker (male, yellow-shafted), Wildwood Lake, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

ICM of a beach rose in the late evening.

New Britain Pa.

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sitting out in the back yard with my camera, this northern flicker wasn't too happy with me as it refused to come near the suet while I was there

After an afternoon of ducks and seagulls it was a nice change to focus on the northern flicker who just flew nonchalantly into my scene.

LaBelle, Idaho

So demanding, the needs of the juveniles keep the parents so busy.....Northern flicker

The Mrs. waiting her turn for the feeder, seems to always let her man go first!! A Northern Flicker.

A portrait of a male Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus)

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

Ed Levin Park, Milpitas, CA. Modified to remove branches from the periphery.