northern flicker

This is a red-shafted flicker that stopped for a drink of water.

Handsome yellow-shafted male northern flicker grabbing a drink during a snowfall.

I saw a bunch of pine straw being flung about on the opposite bank and couldn't figure out what was moving all the straw as I saw no tail so new it wasn't a squirrel. Then it surfaced.

I take 'em where I can get 'em ;)

Hey buddy this condo is taken, move along. I thought the trunk had character and added to the image more than just a really close view. This is where I live is what it says.

Still no time for bird photography yet, so here is a photo from last year. I ran across a series of images I took of this handsome woodpecker that I'd not processed yet. Silly me, what a handsome fellow!

"Red-shafted" Northern Flicker on backyard feeder, female

Working at the far limit of my walk around lens is a test of good luck and determination. Both had a hand in this shot. The flicker was enlarging this hole while I fired away trying to get a sharp result of the whole bird. After 20 or thirty tries I did. All the rest were failures. A tree...

Northern Flicker looking for grubs in my yard

I absolutely love these gorgeous birds! They have such strong markings and beautiful feather patterning. I never used to see them that often but I've kept the suet feeders out year round and that has attracted them in all the time. My local pair succesfully raised a youngling this season and it...

Took this in the spring. This fellow was right outside my kitchen window, literally three feet away. Would have been a better picture if he were on a natural perch, but oh well.

Yellow shafted northern flicker, feeds from ants on ground also in trees like other woodpeckers.

This is the only flight shot I have of a northern flicker. I didn't see another flicker until almost exactly one year later. Unsharp mask was applied to this photo.

This bird has such a bold features and pronounced markings I just had to capture the beauty of this bird.

I had a splendid time with this bird as he /she ate ravenous at the suet feeder

A northern flicker comes in close for food during a winter storm. A most beautiful bird to photograph.