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In our backyard, a female Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) perches in the Maple tree, waiting her turn at the suet feeder
These 2 male flickers were doing their territorial dance. This happens in the spring The dance is most common in the spring, when birds are defending their mates and nesting territories. It typically takes place when a male flicker tries to move into another couple’s territory. The intruder is met by the resident male, who confronts him in a stare-down. The two birds stand a few inches apart, just glaring at each other, with their beaks pointing skyward. At first nothing much happens, but then one bird begins to move its head from side to side, which causes the other bird to do the same thing. Without making contact, they continue to wave their long beaks back and forth.
It was quite exciting to watch this.
Northern Flicker in the back yard, poking through the grass sucking up ants. Zoom in to see an ant on her neck which escaped her tongue.
This one appears to be an intergrade flicker with both black malar (moustache cheek) and the orange-red patch on the back of the head!
Although I am not a birder, I do love to see and watch birds. We tried to make this area one that birds—and Flickers—would continue to like. That's a snag I dragged home and my husband made it stand upright for birds.
The bokeh background comes naturally from the recent fog and dew on trees we had planted seven years ago.
This flicker has the facial markings that indicate it is a red-shafted version, but the wing feathers show yellow shafts, which would make it a yellow-shafted version. So, this individual is what is called an intergrade, a mix of the two.
We have a new photo subject in the yard... a neighbor has a tree with a hole htat is now occupied by a flicker. I've seen the pair around checking it out, but so far only the male in the cavity itself. Hopefully that changes soon, and perhaps in a few weeks we will have baby flickers.
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Ste-Brigitte-de-Laval, Québec, Canada
The somehow unusual Northern Flicker male with the burgundy colored moustache feeding at the nest.
May be a hybrid Red/Yellow Shafted Flicker?
Tokina AT-X 100-300mm f-4 MF Lens & Metabones NF-X-mount Adapter [150-450mm]
It is late March and spring is in the air — Northern Flicker is among the relatively few species that overwinter in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and these two males are energetically displaying now that warmer weather has arrived. This scene unfolded in Fish Creek Provincial Park. Photo 2 of 4
This male Northern Flicker (yellow shafted) and his mate were one of our favourite subjects to photograph during our last trip to Florida. They were mainly seen foraging for ants on the ground so I was pleased to be able to get a different perspective when he briefly flew up into a tree.
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This bird was methodically working the cobblestones of this driveway looking in between the stone for tasty morsels.
This Northern flicker was seen in the Countrywood/Bancroft neighborhood of Walnut Creek, California.
In the darkness the striking sound of matches echoed and in an instant the gentle dance of light and flickering warmth appeared !!
The Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) or common flicker is a medium-sized bird of the woodpecker family. It is native to most of North America, parts of Central America, Cuba, and the Cayman Islands, and is one of the few woodpecker species that migrate. (Wiki)
Northern Flickers spend a lot of their time on the ground digging for ants their favourite food.
Taken at Lakes Regional Park, Fort Myers, Florida.
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A shot of a Northern Flicker taken last weekend In River Forks park here in downtown London. I was fortunate to get fairly close to this one so there was very little cropping in this shot.
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.