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Before there were lighthouses on the Peninsula, ships bound for Portland and Astoria navigated their way through the high waves and shifting sandbars, focusing on fluttering white flags and notched trees along the shoreline by day and flickering signal fires by night. These methods were crude at best and, despite heroic efforts, the sea offshore of the Long Beach Peninsula became known as ‘The Graveyard of the Pacific’.
North Head is the windiest lighthouse area on the West Coast and the second windiest in the nation. Winds of 120 miles per hour have been recorded at the site
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Northern Flicker.....
With thorns in its chest,
Looking out of it's Saguaro Cactus nest.
My backyard. No crop. No post processing. Full frame.
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.
♫ Song from the movie ALITA: Battle angel great movie !
I won't stay quiet, I won't stay quiet
'Cause staying silent's the same as dying
I won't stay quiet, the flicker's burning low
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This female Northern Flicker was foraging for ants, one of its most important food sources.
Taken in Florida.
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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.
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Northern Flicker(m) aka Yellow-shafted Flicker on a vine in this full frame aka zero cropped image....
Wikipedia: The northern flicker or common flicker (Colaptes auratus) 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. Over 100 common names for the northern flicker are known, including yellowhammer (not to be confused with the Eurasian yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella)), clape, gaffer woodpecker, harry-wicket, heigh-ho, wake-up, walk-up, wick-up, yarrup, and gawker bird. Many of these names derive from attempts to imitate some of its calls. It is the state bird of Alabama.
Conservation status: Least Concern
The gilded flicker (Colaptes chrysoides) is a large-sized woodpecker (mean length of 29 cm (11 in)) of the Sonoran, Yuma, and eastern Colorado Desert regions of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico including all of the Baja Peninsula except the extreme northwestern region. Golden yellow underwings distinguish the gilded flicker from the northern flicker found within the same region, which have red underwings.
The gilded flicker most frequently builds its nest hole in a majestic saguaro cactus, excavating a nest hole nearer the top than the ground.The cactus defends itself against water loss into the cavity of the nesting hole by secreting sap that hardens into a waterproof structure that is known as a saguaro boot. Northern flickers, on the other hand, nest in riparian trees and very rarely inhabit saguaros. Gilded flickers occasionally hybridize with northern flickers in the narrow zones where their range and habitat overlap.
Los Angeles. California.
Red-shafted Northern Flicker soft takeoff from a stick. Needed a better aperture.
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Wikipedia: The northern flicker or common flicker (Colaptes auratus) 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. Over 100 common names for the northern flicker are known, including yellowhammer (not to be confused with the Eurasian yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella)), clape, gaffer woodpecker, harry-wicket, heigh-ho, wake-up, walk-up, wick-up, yarrup, and gawker bird. Many of these names derive from attempts to imitate some of its calls. It is the state bird of Alabama (known by its colloquial name of "yellowhammer").
Conservation status: Least Concern
A bathtub blind shot from two winters ago.
This bird has the characteristic head markings of a male Yellow-shafted Flicker, but the wings show red markings characteristic of a Red-shafted Flicker. It might be an intergrade individual.
Edmonton, Alberta.
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Campo Flicker (Nome em Inglês)
Colaptes campestris (Nome Científico)
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Brasília, Brasil
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