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Taken just after sunrise and in an air temperature of two degrees, this Northern Flicker looks comfortable at puff-level five!
These birds are very tough to approach so I shot this from way out and just cropped the hell out of it.
This Northern flicker was perched on the same tree as the ones I shot several days ago. Must have a good supply of insects!
A fiercely florescent Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) feeding on Suet which is attached to the rail of our deck stairs.
The male really stood out with his nape colours. He has been making a nuisance of himself by hammering on our chimney cap. Typical Spring territorial behaviour, but it's a bit annoying!
The somehow unusual Northern Flicker male with the burgundy colored moustache feeding at the nest.
May be a hybrid Red/Yellow Shafted Flicker?
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A female Gilded Flicker (Colaptes chrysoides) checks out a cavity in a cactus, possibly for a nest site. This bird and activity was observed in the desert landscape near Buckeye, Arizona, U.S.A.
20 February, 2014.
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This Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted Flicker) was really working a dead tree trunk, relentlessly rearing his head back, and thrusting his bill forward into a hole he was opening in the trunk. Small wood chips and dust were blown onto his face, and he furiously scratched his head with his right foot. I think something irritated his eye, which was closed during the scratching (as can be seen in the picture).
This Northern flicker was seen in the Countrywood/Bancroft neighborhood of Walnut Creek, California.
The gilded flicker (Colaptes chrysoides) is a large-sized woodpecker (mean length of 29 cm (11 in)) of the Sonoran, Yuma, and eastern Colorado Desert regions of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico including all of the Baja Peninsula except the extreme northwestern region. Golden yellow underwings distinguish the gilded flicker from the northern flicker found within the same region, which have red underwings.
The gilded flicker most frequently builds its nest hole in a majestic saguaro cactus, excavating a nest hole nearer the top than the ground.The cactus defends itself against water loss into the cavity of the nesting hole by secreting sap that hardens into a waterproof structure that is known as a saguaro boot. Northern flickers, on the other hand, nest in riparian trees and very rarely inhabit saguaros. Gilded flickers occasionally hybridize with northern flickers in the narrow zones where their range and habitat overlap.
Los Angeles. California.
I do so love Acer Trees. The only snag is I have to try and protect them from the salt winds as I live on the coast. They also like a bit of shade, but as I have a walled garden that helps. They don't like chalk soil, so I have to grow them in pots. It is a challenge and probably not really sustainable but the colours in the Autumn are so beautiful it is worth the effort. The sun through this one made it look like flickering flames.
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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. (All about birds).
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Two male Yellow-shafted Flickers called from opposite sides of a very large tree at Lake St. Clair Metropark.
The Red-shafted Flickers are common in western States; Yellow-shafted is more common in eastern States. Both are called Northern Flicker.
I have a bunch of this Northern Flicker I ran into two days in a row. I suspect it was the same--same area, cooperative, unlike other Flickers who are usually quite skittish. I'll spread them out, but you'll see some slight repeats--some of them, like this one, I cropped close for detail, others I kept the entire body.
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Sunlight flickers and Sparkes on part of the Shubenacadie River Locks System today in Enfield l, Nova Scotia.