Flicker by photosynthesis

Photography • Animals • posted on Mar 17, 2015

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While visiting our friends Arthur & Kristi yesterday, we heard a repetitive high pitched sound coming from somewhere nearby. Kristi thought it might be a squirrel & Arthur thought it was a pileated woodpecker. I was able to spot it high up on a tree & take this photo. Based on a Google image search, I'm pretty sure it's a red-shafted northern flicker (flickers are in the woodpecker family). Not as sharp as I would have liked, but it was pretty high up & this was as close as my 60x zoom lens would take me - plus it's a crop of the original shot... Please zoom.

Comments (10)

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motic

10:49AM | Tue, 17 March 2015

That's a beautiful bird and the photo would be good enough for me too in those conditions, at first i thought you used a very high iso :o)

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kenmo

11:23AM | Tue, 17 March 2015

Beautiful capture....

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bodo_56

12:04PM | Tue, 17 March 2015

Never saw this species before, so it's good enough for me!

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durleybeachbum

3:29PM | Tue, 17 March 2015

Such an interesting bird. We don't have these here.

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jayfar

3:53PM | Tue, 17 March 2015

Another excellent image.

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irisinthespring

6:47PM | Tue, 17 March 2015

Marvelous capture, love it!

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MrsRatbag

8:58PM | Tue, 17 March 2015

You are right, it is a flicker. The males have the red malar streak. I have a family of these that live in my area and come daily to eat my suet cakes. They are very cool to watch and it's easy to tell when they are near because they make that call before they come in to land and eat. When they fly their undercarriage is bright orange and quite striking.

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mtdana

12:34AM | Wed, 18 March 2015

Wonderful capture and identification!!!

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goodoleboy

10:05PM | Wed, 18 March 2015

This shot of the cool avian via your 60X zoom lens came out remarkably well, and sharp enough to exquisitely capture the various patterns and textures of the Flicker, unaware that it was being recorded.

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