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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.
with the lovely fall colors behind it.
Lowell Township, Michigan
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Catching up on some photos that I thought were lost.
These photos were taken at Mallard Point .
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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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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.
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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This pair of Northern Flickers (Colaptes auratus) were among several that were flitting about in a bare tree at a local park this Spring. I posted a shot of three of them earlier. These birds were quite a distance away for this shot, across a body of water, but it helped that they were in direct sunlight.
I was photographing a female yellow warbler when I sensed movement off on the edge of my peripheral vision. I looked up and saw that a male, red-shafted flicker had landed on a really nice perch, not too far away. I was very happy to take its photo and managed a few frames before it flew away.
"Northern Flickers usually excavate nest holes in dead or diseased tree trunks or large branches. In northern North America look for nests in trembling aspens, which are susceptible to a heartrot that makes for easy excavation. Unlike many woodpeckers, flickers often reuse cavities that they or another species excavated in a previous year. Nests are generally placed 6-15 feet off the ground, but on rare occasions can be over 100 feet high. Northern Flickers have been known to nest in old burrows of Belted Kingfishers or Bank Swallows"
from allaboutbirds.org
Love this poem by Taryn Taylor - Flicker
A flame flickers from inside my spirit.
A candle caresses my core with strength.
Illumination burns, steady and brilliant,
Licking my insides with certainty.
A sensuous blaze melts deep resistance
As my soul sizzles in bright crackles,
Consuming me in sparks of defiance
And fueling me with possibility.
A glow of hope permeates my being,
Warm and persistent like the earth’s furnace.
Colors fold in roaring kaleidoscopes,
Laughing like fire in a swarm of heat.
Pulses of joy propel my feet forward,
As inspiration engulfs me in bliss.
Just before taking these photos I'd gone back inside the house and it was only as I turned around to have one last look on the feeders that I saw this beautiful northern flicker. A quick 180 and a slow approach back to the feeders and I was able to capture these photos
Colaptes auratus
Showing new spiky feathers and open eyes, the flicker babies are growing by leaps and bounds.
Soon they will be able to scrabble up the walls of this deep tree cavity, and meet their parents offering food.
Photographed in the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona.
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