Flicker Every Click
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Female woodpecker, Northern Flicker, red-shafted, Colaptes auratus, Carpintero Escapulario (Spanish), Pic flamboyant (French). We're fortunate more than one seems to like to visit.
I love the way the sidelight shows off the red-(orange)-shafted feathers.
NB. I did NOT increase vibrancy or saturation for you doubters ;-)
Larger view: www.flickr.com/photos/jan-timmons/49405245832/sizes/k/
25 of 25 Days of Christmas
Merry Christmas to all of my Flickr friends. I was unable to finish my 25 days of Christmas this year due to a family emergency but I am able to wish you all a Merry Christmas and we can hope for a happier new year. :)
with his neck still swollen from rut, moose are such massive animals.........then again, those tetons are massive as well !
From www.birdnote.org/listen/shows/nictitating-membranes-natur...
"For most birds, keen eyesight is absolutely critical — for finding food, spotting predators, and generally staying alive. But many birds lead lives that could be very hard on the eyes.
"Fortunately, birds have evolved a structure for protecting their eyes. Like humans, they have upper and lower outer eyelids. But beneath the outer eyelids lies an extra eyelid, called the nictitating membrane. Nictitating, for all its alliterative syllables, simply means “blinking”. This extra eyelid is hinged at the inner side of the eye and sweeps horizontally across the cornea. The nictitating membrane is largely transparent, and it helps keep the eye moist and clean while guarding it from wind, dust, and hazards.
“Reptiles and some mammals have the extra eyelid, too.”
—Bird Note
as part of their elk monitoring and studies staff tranquilized this cow elk as her 'calf' looks on...this cow will get a new 'necklace' used in monitoring her location and gathering information...
The spiralling light trail is wonderfully peculiar. Such that I do not know what to title this picture. Car Headlights do not often leave light trails where elements of there bulbs are visible. Here the centre of this car light appears to be drawing loops as it passes by me.
This is a crop of, “Before The Pentland Hills a path of light unravels upon long exposure.” Both front bulbs are leaving a brilliant bright pattern as they flicker their way along their route. The fuller picture is in the same album on Flickr.
Before The Pentland Hills a path of light unravels upon long exposure
Our vision shows us light and shadow and each of us has little difference in perception. Take a moment and extend it through an open shutter to discover how the image in our eyes is made from light that we watch inaccurately. The truth of ‘seeing is believing’ is a gentle fantasy we make of the world around us.
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Pentland Hills Regional Park
Posing nicely for me.
Lowell Township, Michigan
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A solitary figure searching for a glimmer of light in the darkness..
Canterbury Cathedral 24th April 2026
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Generally thought to be an eastern bird, I found this Yellow-shafted Norther Flicker (olaptes auratus) competing with two local Red-shafteds for our suet feeder this morning in the rain
Northern Flickers are large, brown woodpeckers with a gentle expression and handsome black-scalloped plumage. On walks, don’t be surprised if you scare one up from the ground. It’s not where you’d expect to find a woodpecker, but flickers eat mainly ants and beetles, digging for them with their unusual, slightly curved bill. When they fly you’ll see a flash of color in the wings – yellow if you’re in the East, red if you’re in the West – and a bright white flash on the rump.
A female red shafted Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) in for the suet at our feeding station. She also had a juvenile tagging along with her
My 17th image on explore (7/6/2018) reaching No. 95!
Traffic streams along Dorking High Street, in Surrey.
Long exposure, taken with a Nikon D40 and a Sigma 10-20mm EX DC HSM lens, all mounted on a Joby Gorillapod, and processed in GIMP and Photoscape.
Bacino di Torano, Fantiscritti
Carrara
Part of the Railway system that was built beginning 1871 and ended in 1890 to transport the Marbel Blocks from the quarries in the mountains to the Port in Marina di Carrara.
The line was long more than 22 km leading from the docks up to the altitude of 445 meters in the middle of the quarries and tackle gradients that could reach, in some sections, 70 per thousand, on standard gauge tracks.
Of the two 19th-century viaducts, the smaller one, called Canalpiccino, leads to the Torano area and is supported by three high arches, while the larger one, with its five arches 38 meters high (at its highest point), is undoubtedly the most admired.