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An Intergrade Northern Flicker pausing form its sunflower seed snack. This Woodpecker is a cross between the Red-shafted Northern Flicker and a Yellow-shafted Norther Flicker. This beautiful Woodpecker has the red nape crescent, a characteristic of the male Yellow-shafted Flicker. Photo taken in our backyard in Camas, Washington.
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I discovered that these woodpeckers eat more than just ants and insects. They seem to enjoy the berries on the Virginia Creeper.
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.
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.
(male yellow-shafted type)
A bathtub blind shot from December 2021.
This Flicker shot was my favorite of a series in terms of the setting on my deck rail and the coating of snow on the rock. I did not post it because the focus on the head was not very good. I posted a sharper shot, but it was not as pleasing in terms of composition.
I have new tools since 2021, so I decided to rework the raw file. If you zoom in, you will see the focus on the head is not perfect, but it is much better than my original processed shot.
on the last day of summer, Sept 21st, I had a flurry of unexpected garden visitors, almost as if they were stopping to say goodbye on their way south somewhere...
I spotted this Northern Flicker feeding on the ground further up the path. I slowly walk closer shooting as I went, trying to stay well off the opposite side of the path from where the woodpecker was. She was watching me and drilling for likely ants or such and I walked slowly stopping when she seemed nervous and kept as far from her as the path allowed. She needed this food and I was not in a rush, I allowed her to feed and moved past her and she kept at it. I got some good images and she got breakfast.
Peace Valley Park.
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Male Northern Flicker
I've been having fun observing our regular birds, and now a flicker pair, as they visit our backyard for a sip of water.
Yellow shafted Flickers show up in this region now and then. When they do, they sometimes mate with one of the regions most common red-shafted Flickers. And this is what we get. I don't catch that red marking on the back of the head often, there are a couple more examples in my Northern Flicker set. I've only seen yellow shafted females, no males that I have any photos of. Look at the original size to see this fellas markings more clearly!
Ralston Creek Trail, 11-25-10.
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.
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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.