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CANADA - spotted breast, yellow-black tail (1 Viewer)
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Jan-Paul Charteris
Sussex birder and budding moth enthusiast
Northern Flicker :t:
BrentEades
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Great, thanks Jan-Paul.
apbarr
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They're my bane to see, three trips to North America and not one:C
ohh wow! we have a family of them living in my front yard.. some days ill see 5-6
apbarr
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Jan-Paul Charteris
Sussex birder and budding moth enthusiast
If it helps, I spent a whole day wandering around the not very pleasant streets of Southampton once looking for one which had been reported (and I figured would at least likely be an acceptable ship-assist) that was probably a Jay!
Peter C.
...just zis guy, you know?
Oh, good, I don't feel so bad about my three trips (the other way) and no Nightingale yet....
(Thought we had one for sure, last time (in France) - turned out, it was some dip playing a tape outside a café all night - I suspect for "atmosphere" |
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apbarr
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Probably my own fault, the only time I went out to a shopping mall without my bins and a woodpecker type that I thought looked Flickerish flew up over the road but I couldn't see it properly. Also had an Osprey eating a fish on one of the lamp posts in the car park but guess what, no camera either
apbarr
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We travelled from our hotel by courtesy bus a couple of miles to the shopping mall, I wasn't expecting to be birding at all as it was a shopping trip so decided to leave the bins in our safe. Bad move I know.
Katemail13
Southeastern Utah, USA
This is interesting for me to see. This is the 'Yellow Shafted' version of the Northern Flicker. They are the eastern version. Out here in Utah, we have the 'Red Shafted' version.
They're great birds - great personalities. They peck away at the ground, put their heads down to listen for bugs, peck some more. They peck noisily at our Aluminum roof. A few years ago, we had one work his way down our chimney looking for bugs. He got trapped in our fireplace, and I felt really bad for him. We finally opened the fireplace doors, hoping to catch him in a bed sheet, but he flew right out the open front door. Poor guy.
They're great birds - great personalities. They peck away at the ground, put their heads down to listen for bugs, peck some more. They peck noisily at our Aluminum roof. A few years ago, we had one work his way down our chimney looking for bugs. He got trapped in our fireplace, and I felt really bad for him. We finally opened the fireplace doors, hoping to catch him in a bed sheet, but he flew right out the open front door. Poor guy.
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