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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.
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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
I was looking down at the lake with many red winged blackbird, robins, cedar waxwings and house finches, when this Northern flicker landed on a tree just out from me. Got a few shots before it moved on.
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
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the juvenile male flicker spends a little time in its own little world, nice to see the parents bring a couple of juveniles male/female to the suet feeder
When we visited Yosemite earlier this month we took a drive to a more remote area of the park. I was walking slowly through the forest when I saw a flash of orange in the distance. I had seen Flickers nesting in this area in previous years so I was on the lookout for just this kind of sighting. I approached the tree and spotted a hole in the trunk. I sat down and waited. My patience paid off when a male Flicker flew onto the tree and then went into the nest hole. I was ready when he poked his head out and then took flight.
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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Taken just after sunrise and in an air temperature of two degrees, this Northern Flicker looks comfortable at puff-level five!
A Northern Flicker (red shafted) alights on a cottonwood stem, catching the last rays of sunlight on a cold winter day. Although they are well suited for clambering around tree branches, flickers mostly feed on the ground.
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.
Hey Mel and Sandra the male also showed up. The two flickers have been visiting almost every morning this week. They chat a lot. The nice weather is great with the birds. They are numerous, happy and in very healthy conditions.
This trio of Northern Flickers (Colaptes auratus) were among several that were flitting about in this bare tree on a recent day. They were quite a distance away for this shot, across a body of water, but it helped that the birds were in direct sunlight.