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When we were waiting for the Merlin or Sharpie, Northern Flicker perching right in front is always a "bonus".
Coyote Hills Regional. Fremont California
The Gilded Flicker resides mostly in the Sonoran Desert in the northwest of Mexico, up through southern Arizona and down the Baja peninsula where I found this bird and her mate.
The GF is smaller than the Northern Flicker and resides near cacti and palm trees.
Notice the cinnamon cap which is distinct from the Northern Flicker.
Bucks County Pa.
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"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
In our backyard, a female Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) perches in the Maple tree, waiting her turn at the suet feeder
This flicker has the facial markings that indicate it is a red-shafted version, but the wing feathers show yellow shafts, which would make it a yellow-shafted version. So, this individual is what is called an intergrade, a mix of the two.
A candle flame blown around by the air.
After getting the camera and candle set and focused I shot the photo while blowing the flame around with my hand.
This one appears to be an intergrade flicker with both black malar (moustache cheek) and the orange-red patch on the back of the head!
Although I am not a birder, I do love to see and watch birds. We tried to make this area one that birds—and Flickers—would continue to like. That's a snag I dragged home and my husband made it stand upright for birds.
The bokeh background comes naturally from the recent fog and dew on trees we had planted seven years ago.
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Ste-Brigitte-de-Laval, Québec, Canada
It is late March and spring is in the air — Northern Flicker is among the relatively few species that overwinter in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and these two males are energetically displaying now that warmer weather has arrived. This scene unfolded in Fish Creek Provincial Park. Photo 2 of 4
This male Northern Flicker (yellow shafted) and his mate were one of our favourite subjects to photograph during our last trip to Florida. They were mainly seen foraging for ants on the ground so I was pleased to be able to get a different perspective when he briefly flew up into a tree.
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We have a new photo subject in the yard... a neighbor has a tree with a hole htat is now occupied by a flicker. I've seen the pair around checking it out, but so far only the male in the cavity itself. Hopefully that changes soon, and perhaps in a few weeks we will have baby flickers.
This bird was methodically working the cobblestones of this driveway looking in between the stone for tasty morsels.
In the darkness the striking sound of matches echoed and in an instant the gentle dance of light and flickering warmth appeared !!
Bob heard these young Flickers calling to be fed before spotting them in an old broken tree trunk. We were lucky to see them because when we went back the next day they had fledged and were nowhere in sight.
The Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) or common flicker 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. (Wiki)
Northern Flickers spend a lot of their time on the ground digging for ants their favourite food.
Taken at Lakes Regional Park, Fort Myers, Florida.
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