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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
This bird was methodically working the cobblestones of this driveway looking in between the stone for tasty morsels.
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Ste-Brigitte-de-Laval, Québec, Canada
Its offially winter here in St.Albert with the 10-20cm of snow we got in the last 24 hrs. Backyard birding.
In our backyard, a female Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) perches in the Maple tree, waiting her turn at the suet feeder
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)
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.
This Northern flicker landed on one of the fence posts next to my wife's garden. Neighbor's tree made a nice backdrop!
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.
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.
Very active and loud at my local conservation area, there are atleast four or five breeding pairs which make the woods a very active place!
A red-shafted (Western) male Northern Flicker (colaptes auratus) photo taken in Littleton, Colorado.
Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) feeding in the grass at the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary in the Bow River Valley in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
13 May, 2017.
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On my walkabout on Sunday morning through the Grand Ravines North Park I sat for awhile between a couple ravines and waited patiently for something to come my way. After a bit this Northern Flicker showed up for his photo to be taken.
Northern Flicker males engaged in a courting battle over a female flicker a few branches over. This is something Ive seen several times, but I have never been in good spots for photos. Today these guys decided to hash it out on the big maple tree outside my bedroom window, basically at eye level. These two males would stare at each other, then start to bob up and down, side to side while cackling at each other. They would do this for a few seconds at a time then take a rest. Its obviously much harder work on them then it appears ( im sure it being near zero for temperatures didnt help either ) because after several minutes of dancing and flying around to different branches as the female moved, they both started to get less into it and moved much less.
A female Northern Flicker (Red-Shafted) flew in and landed on our Mr. Adams Pine tree, before flying to the Suet feeder.
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.
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.