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This is a female Northern Flicker and its eating from a tail prop suet feeder. Woodpeckers like to prop themselves on the feeder like they do a tree.
It's been another extraordinary bird species day! There have been 19 species and among those were at least 150 starlings in our trees out back.
We need more bird food! :)
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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.
Coquitlam BC Canada
If they say
Who cares if one more light goes out?
In the sky of a million stars
It flickers, flickers
Who cares when someone's time runs out?
If a moment is all we are
We're quicker, quicker
Who cares if one more light goes out?
Well I do
Hey, I needed a title. This was the point at which it realized I had its back. Arguably a "no-no" for some photogs.
This female Northern Flicker was foraging on the ground for ants, rather like the ones crawling all over my feet and legs as I took this shot!
Taken in Florida.
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The Northern Flicker (male) puts on a show with crest raised and tail fanned as he greets his mate atop the tree where their nest is. Flicker mom took her leave and the male then went on the feed the chicks.
Canatara Park, Sarnia, ON
....momentarily airborne before it dives for the feeders. In the background are autumn maple leaves on the October Glory Maple, or Acer rubrum. I had hoped to catch the flicker against that background.
Hadn't truly known how lovely October could look.
I spotted this Northern Flicker as it was working on a tree in the Summerside area of Prince Edward Island.
Photo taken with the Olympus OM-1 and M.Zuiko 100-400mm f/5.0-6.3. Lately, I've been processing some images with Lightroom and others with DxO PhotoLab 9.X, and using Lightroom to catalogue my photos and act as the uploader to Flickr. This particular photo was processed in DxO PhotoLab.
Northern Flicker found at Griffin Family Nature Preserve. Infrequent sighting for me. Showing off the yellow on his tail feathers.
iNaturalist link www.inaturalist.org/observations/176608471
Jenny Pansing photos
"Although it can climb up the trunks of trees and hammer on wood like other woodpeckers, the Northern Flicker prefers to find food on the ground. Ants are its main food, and the flicker digs in the dirt to find them. It uses its long barbed tongue to lap up the ants."
from allaboutbirds.org
I heard the rat-a-tat-tat of this bird long before I saw him. He was working this dead tree perhaps 75 yards from where I first heard the sound. Only moments after I spotted him, he turned from his work and spotted me, allowing me only this single shot before he flew away. I think it's a Common Flicker, but would be happy for any ID help.
A large and common woodpecker of the saguaro cactus forests of the Sonoran Desert, the Gilded Flicker has the gray face and red mustache of the "red-shafted" form of the Northern Flicker, but the yellow wings of the "yellow-shafted" form. (Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
Buckeye. Maricopa County, Arizona
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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