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American bullfrog, chillin on some dead wood.
Wildwood Park, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Thank you for your visit!
1/25 sec. f/6.3 600mm ISO100
A migrating male yellow-shafted or maybe mixed red and yellow shafted northern flicker gives me a bit of an awkward pose. Other than starlings, grackles, and egrets, I haven't seen a lot of migrating birds this fall, perhaps because we've had such a warm October, especially at night.
When I invite Sparkles over for a drink or three, it kinda sorta always ends up something like this: a dance-off in the greenhouse with the greenhouse security camera catching the antics! This is really colorful, right?! And we’re looking very sunkissed here, but you know, it’s greenhouse lighting, extra fine tuned for uhm, pot plants. And yes, I have fluffy boots in every color including Georgia red!
I wanted to show Spark my prized cannabis plant, so after our fourth or fifth margarita, we danced through the doors to admire the blue-ribbon worthy greenery (okay, maybe not quite blue ribbon!) and I forgot to switch off the security cameras. But ... a win for us, a drunk selfie for the collection without even having to snap it ourselves. Plus, bonus points for Sparkle actually sparkling like a unicorn here as well! Love you, Sparkling girl, and cheers to another adventure with photographic evidence for the memory album. Yay! PS: your version is so ace!🍷🍷🍷
I hope everyone is having a fantastic fall ... I have been sporadic with my Flickering because, well, it's football season and as everyone knows, I'm obsessed. Go Dawgs! Sending tons of love! xo ❤️🏈
We saw two birds streak by a window at one end of the house so I grabbed the camera and went to the 'pond' side. It was a busy morning before the rain and after a bit this Northern flicker came back looking for some breakfast. They have to be one of my favorites for their markings.
I saw this female Yellow-shafted Northern flicker as soon as I opened the blinds. She used the River birch tree to scope out the bird bath at its base. She did make it down to the water source and drank her fill before flying off. It was a thrilling encounter.
I've brought this photo forward to try to get an explanation of something weird going on on Flickr. As you can see, the photo was taken almost 6 1/2 years ago, and originally uploaded at that time. It is shown in the presentation style I was using at that time. The photo was of limited interest...received 27 comments, 6 faves, and perhaps a hundred views.
And then dropped off the edge of the world. Until recently. In the last more than a month the photo has been receiving 150-200 views per day...OFTEN MORE. You can see that it has accumulated almost twelve thousand total views...and on more than half of the days in the last month it has been my photo most viewed on those days!
There is nothing anywhere to indicate why that is happening. ALL of the views are coming from Flickr, and not outside locations., The title is short and non-deceptive. There are only four tags, and one of them is a photo file number. The original description is one short sentence -- NOT crammed with keywords or anything. You can see it below.
The question is...after more than six years of 100% indifference, why is this photo now getting hundreds of views each day. And NO...it was not in Explore at any time.
Tis a PUZZLEMENT. Original description below.
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You get just a hint of the bright yellow on the tail feathers.
American Falls Reservoir, Idaho
A family gathering of Flickers. First there was one followed singly by two others. They would animatedly "talk" to each other then turn stock still. This process would repeat it self many times during the following 10 minutes before I left. I've never seen anything quite like it.
A second family of Northern Flickers has been showing up at the suet feeder. These are even younger than the first three, as they have none of the adult colouring at all yet. The father tried to show them how to feed from the suet, but they were only interested in getting him to feed them. There's a video here that shows what he has to contend with.
Mustachio'd Northern Flicker dining at my feeder.
Common year-round area resident, reduced in winter.
There were three Flickers chasing each other through the trees out front. This one landed down in the next door neighbors lawn and had a snack in between the games. :-)
As you can see there is a pecking order even in birds... The Flicker is larger so the little Starling has to wait for the larger bird to finish before it can have a chance at the feeder... This shot was taken from my kitchen window, last winter !!!
Παραταγμένοι οι Φλίκερς [flickers] του Salonica Group & Thessalia / Thessaly group.......Ready for action!!
Φάρος στις Εκβολές του Αξιού Ποταμού.
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2η Απόδειξη πως κάποιος κλέβει.....
This year been great. Meet so many wonderful people. Thank god i went back and signed on my flicker account. And saw some of the greatest photos. :) Thank You Everyone!
1. Most Views: Bratz 2010 Twins Phoebe and Roxxi. Got so many questions about them. It's weird cause i don't play with them as much.
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2. Most Faves: Shira Electric Girl. Wow this one was a surprise. Thank you everyone for all the love and support.
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3. Most Comments: Bratz 2010 Twins Phoebe and Roxxi.
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4. Personal Fave Of The Year: Sasha Bratz Next Super Model Cycle 1 Hippiez to the Heart. This one really came out great. And i really love the colors all together.
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I think i'm the last to do this so if you were tagged already don't mine it. :)
Northern Flicker.....
With thorns in its chest,
Looking out of it's Saguaro Cactus nest.
My backyard. No crop. No post processing. Full frame.
at the end of the day...to my eye it looked like a dancer bending over in a bow, I wasn't sure what kind of bird it was as it was so dark, the lines of the branch simulating the lines of the bird brought all sorts of parallel worlds to my imagination.
The Gilded Flicker (Colaptes chrysoides) is a large-sized woodpecker (mean length of 29 cm (11 in)) of the Sonoran, Yuma, and eastern Desert regions of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico including all of the Baja Peninsula except the extreme northwestern region. Golden yellow under wings distinguish the gilded flicker from the northern flicker found within the same region, which have red under wings. Wikipedia
This beautiful Gilded Flicker was flying around Golden Valley Arizona.
I took advantage of a sunny morning today and drove out to Montana de Oro. I parked by the Ranch House and was sitting and sipping my coffee when I noticed two birds chasing each other around. That got my attention! I quickly got out my camera and tried to capture the action. They flew up several times in a very aggressive manner.