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Taken at one of the bird feeding stations at our home. The Flicker has been a regular visitor this winter.
Northern Flicker © Kevin Rutherford, Fern Lake Photography. Photo taken on the Flying Circus Birders of Boulder Walk on February 12, 2022.
I made a trip out to the Wallowa Whitman National Forest this week in search of the Great Gray Owls, but they were not any where to be found. They were not on the nesting boxes yet so all that was left to shoot were dozens of flickers and some Western and Mountain Bluebirds. Trying to get close enough to these birds is no easy task especially in a very open burnt pine forest. After several attempts at stalking birds, that had landed only to have them bolt even before I could set my tripod down, I was getting quite discouraged when these two landed directly above me only 20 or 30 yards away. They seemed oblivious to my presence as they danced up and down the branch and then came together for a brief moment to mate.
Panorama of the Hudson River and the Morgan Stanley Building in Jersey City, NJ. Seen on the ledge at picture's bottom are the remains of the Yellow Shafted Northern Flicker our Peregrine Falcon ate last week.
Day 40 - A Flicker is a type of woodpecker. Isn't he gorgeous? I do wish he would quit pounding on the side of my house, though. Ha ha ha, a Flicker on Flickr.
Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus), 10 miles N of Stettler, Alberta.
28 June, 2011.
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Northern Flicker © Clark Anderson. Photo taken on the Flying Circus Birders of Boulder Walk on May 8, 2021.
A great three days at the hawk watch at Whitefish Point, Michigan. Two days of sun, some cloud, and south winds made for a great hawk movement. Not many song birds but lots of Flickers.
Northern Flicker © Clark Anderson. Photo taken on the Flying Circus Birders of Boulder Walk on December 26, 2020.
A very active Flicker nest. The young are being well fed as indicated by the number of Poop Sacks leaving the nest.
View at Large or Original. Boundary Bay. For some reason this guy was not shy, got to about 20ft, laid on the ground and shot away, he just kept eating away. Spent about 40 minutes (don't ask how many shots) before a Coopers Hawk flew over and scared him off into the bushes.
Northern Flicker © Eileen Rutherford. Photo taken on the Flying Circus Birders of Boulder Walk on February 6, 2021.
Northern Flicker Intergrade © Steve Frye. Photo taken on the Flying Circus Birders of Boulder Walk on March 13, 2021.
Northern Flicker © Jane Baryames. Photo taken on the Boulder Flying Circus Birders Walk on October 27, 2018.
Northern Flicker Intergrade © Steve Frye. Photo taken on the Flying Circus Birders of Boulder Walk on March 13, 2021.
Northern Flicker Intergrade © Steve Frye. Photo taken on the Flying Circus Birders of Boulder Walk on March 13, 2021.
The Flicker is a ground feeding woodpecker. I keep a pile of rotting cut wood in the backyard to give them a place to eat. A pair come by almost daily to dig. The female spent the night in the pile during the first blizzard.
Northern Flicker © Eileen Rutherford. Photo taken on the Boulder Flying Circus Birders Walk on December 21, 2019.
This fine-looking Northern Flicker is an example of an intergrade between Red-shafted and Yellow-shafted Flickers. Many variations exist, but all intergrades possess some combination of features from each form. This bird has the mostly gray face and red malar of a Red-shafted Flicker, but the underside of the wings and tail are yellow instead of red (perhaps somewhat orange in this individual). The color contrast was striking when it flew off with two Red-shafted birds.
There tend to be more intergrades in my region during migration. I am aware of breeding intergrade populations in Clayton, NM and Clovis, NM to the west. All of the breeding Flickers that I've found in my area occur east of the caprock, and all have been Yellow-shafted. Perhaps I just haven't found breeding intergrades yet.
Coleman Park, Brownfield, TX