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A beautiful female yellow-shafted northern flicker (Colaptes auratus, Picidae) is perched near her nest--a hole in a dead cottonwood tree.
Uihlein Waterfowl Production Area
Winnebago County, Wisconsin
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Two male Northern Flicker chicks checking out the 'outside' world after a double feeding by the parents (Tsehum Harbour, BC).
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Male Northern Flicker foraging for insects
{ Dzięcioł różowoszyi, Colaptes auratus}
Jones Beach - West End , Long Island, New York.
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600mm - f/4.0 - 1/800s - ISO 800
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Male Northern Flicker checks for raptors that seem ever-present lately.
His position offers a nice chance to see those underside orange-red tail feathers.
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A male Northern Flicker getting some Peanut Seut on a Snowy Sunday. Photo taken in Camas, Washington.
The red-shafted and yellow-shafted forms of the Northern Flicker formerly were considered different species. The two forms hybridize extensively in a wide zone from Alaska to the panhandle of Texas. A hybrid often has some traits from each of the two forms and some traits that are intermediate between them. The Red-shafted Flicker also hybridizes with the Gilded Flicker, but less frequently.
...Northern flickers and rainy days. Flickers apparently return and return. I smile when they drill loudly on the roof.
"The courtship of the flicker is a lively and spectacular performance, noisy, full of action, and often ludicrous, as three or more birds of both sexes indulge in their comical dancing, nodding, bowing, and swaying motions, or chase each other around the trunk or through the branches of a tree."
~Birds by Bent
The irony of moving here? So much tall, wild grasses. Allergies to grass are the price of living here, perhaps. Thanks for looking!
850mm (another rented and then purchased lens), f/6.7, slow shutter at 1/640 (for the length of the lens), ISO 400
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Northern Flicker at Sparrows rock ,Central park.
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I'd just relocated at Koll and stepped out of the car, when I saw a Northern Flicker silhouetted on a log. I quickly got focus and managed to catch one shot before it flew off. Fortunately, it was a nice pose with nice background - otherwise I wouldn't be posting it here :)
At one point at Boundary Bay I saw 3 Red-shafted Northern Flickers on this stump. Of course when I got my camera up only two remained: a male and female.
Northern flicker at Summit rock , Central park.
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Winter backyard birding. This hairy woodpecker chased the flicker off the feeding station.
St.Albert Alberta
Another rare scene for Victoria, British Columbia. The canopy of snow on that tree was very dense. I do not like to use a flash for bird photography and do not have much experience with it but in this case, I had to use it to ensure that some of the bird details would show up on the image Another bird picture as opposed to picture of a bird. Full Frame. Type L to view Large
We have a catalpa tree in our back yard that the northern flickers hang out on when the wind blows briskly out of the north. This male was making his way up the tree to a more private perch away from the prying long lenses of the paparazzi.
A Northern Flicker starting to make a hole into a tree to be his new home.
Carden Alvar, Ontario
Canada
A male red-shafted northern flicker (Colaptes auratus) takes a break from drilling into wood to check out the annoying human pointing the long cylindrical object at it.
"The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
— Douglas Adams (Life, the Universe and Everything [Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy])
Female Northern Flicker (red shafted) dives into the tall grasses. Unseen insect, perhaps.
Yellow Shafted Variety. Love all their interesting markings and colors. Try large for a birds eye view.
..hanging on the rock wall just outside the kitchen window. I'm not sure how much actual warmth the sunlight has at this time of the year. Maybe it is all just in their little heads..or maybe the actual sunlight can add some warmth to their feathers somehow ...
The sparrows have been doing the same thing some days.. clinging to the rocks beside the Flickers ... mostly on the very cold days... in a tiny patch of sunlight if they can find some.
The past week has been amazing.... warm at -2C or so .... compared to the horrible -32C of a week or so ago.
The birds are probably enjoying this brief week or so of better temperatures.
All week looks pretty good...some crazy person (weatherman) has even been saying that by Friday it could go as high as +8C... we'll see if they change their minds by then.
Northern Flicker
Two male Northern Flickers perched on a branch in the early morning sunlight at Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge near Stevensville, Montana. The refuge was named for Senator Lee Metcalf who was committed to conservation.
I thought I’d show a comparison of a Red-shafted and a Yellow-shafted Northern Flicker. The Red-shafted is found in the west and my shot was taken in New Mexico and the Yellow-shafted here in South Florida. Unfortunately, that nest failed and I’ve yet to see a Flicker chick. They are my favorite woodpeckers. For some reason, maybe someone knows, they show up in my bird books as a woodpecker but are indexed separately. Probably just an anomaly that was copied from one indexer to another but I’d love to know if there’s a reason. I’ve only seen a few in South Florida but believe they are more common farther north. I also don’t spend that much time in typical dry forest areas where Flickers would generally be found, so that may be a factor. (Colaptes auratus) (Sony a1 for both, Red-shafted Sony 400mm with a 1.4 extender, 1/4000, f/4, ISO 640; Yellow-shafted, Sony 70-200 with a 1.4 extender, 1/4000, f/4.5, ISO 640)