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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.
"Although it can climb up the trunks of trees and hammer on wood like other woodpeckers, the Northern Flicker prefers to find food on the ground. Ants are its main food, and the flicker digs in the dirt to find them. It uses its long barbed tongue to lap up the ants."
from allaboutbirds.org
I have it on good authority these are two male Northern Flickers. When scouting local birds, geese, and ducks, the red neck caught my eye. Things got interesting when these two males were bobbing and weaving. They were both very agitated.
While editing I considered remove the twigs and decided perfection can be AI's job. I'll continue capturing real life.
Hope everyone is healthy.
There were seven eggs, and though it is impossible? to count, it looks like all the eggs hatched.
Mom and Pop are busy tending the newborns; feeding, cleaning, and feeding each other as they take turns tending the nest.
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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
A Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) rests during a frosty morning in the aspen woods east of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
There are two varieties based on the colours of the tail feathers - the yellow and red shafted - with this being the yellow shafted variety.
17 January, 2023.
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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.
The Northern Flicker is one of the few North American woodpecker species that migrate. They breed in Canada and Alaska and winter in the southern United States and Mexico.
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
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 was a really windy day. I started out at Mallard Point without much luck! The river was almost devoid of waterfowl. I then headed to Bankside which was a little more fruitful.
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Catching up on some photos that I thought were lost.
These photos were taken at Mallard Point .
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This bird was methodically working the cobblestones of this driveway looking in between the stone for tasty morsels.