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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.
I was having lunch and a visitor showed up... Needless to say I ran for the camera...This is only the 3rd time I have seen them and one of the times I couldn't get the camera from the office quick enough...:-(
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 Northern Shoveler amongst the dried lotus.
Thank you for the visit!
Wildwood Lake, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
f10 1/1000 ISO500 600mm
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 !!!
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.
Source: Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Scène champêtre aux éclats de milliers de soleils ...
Country scene with the bursts of thousands of suns ...
Cliquez pour agrandir \ Click for larger view
Northern Flicker.....
With thorns in its chest,
Looking out of it's Saguaro Cactus nest.
My backyard. No crop. No post processing. Full frame.
A very co-operative Northern Flicker (m) in the early morning sunlight. While the Flicker was foraging in the grass I was able to stay low and capture a few photos.
Thank you for viewing
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.
This encounter was pretty special to me for a couple of reasons. One' is that I believe that this is a youngster, and secondly, it flew to one of my maple trees, where it is seen here.
It has been quite a while since I have seen them visiting the neighbourhood. I had seen them nearby recently, but was just returning home in my car and did not have my camera. On this day I was able to get some pictures of it before and after this when it was on a nearby utility pole. Although those shots were unobstructed, by far I liked this shot the best even though it was obstructed by parts of the tree.
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.
Nous entendions le cris des jeunes depuis un moment, mais nous étions incapables de les localiser. Puis, on se retourne et voilà un des deux rejetons qui nous fait coucou !
We had heard the cries of the chicks for a while, but we were unable to locate them. Then, we turn and here is one of the two offspring saying hello !
Northern Flicker (Red-shafted female)
Colaptes auratus
ORDER: Piciformes
FAMILY: Picidae
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Northern_Flicker/overview
Colorado Springs, CO