Colaptes auratus

Autumn Female Northern Flicker At A Birdbath

By |October 18th, 2024|Categories: Arkansas, Birds, Northern Flickers, Sebastian County|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Yesterday morning, I was thrilled when a female Northern Flicker flew into the birdbath for a drink on a chilly autumn day. She seemed to glow in the sunlight.

Birds and Wildlife From Arkansas And Sequoyah NWR In Oklahoma

By |May 6th, 2024|Categories: Arkansas, Birds, Blue-winged Teals, Carolina Chickadees, Common Five-lined Skinks, Coyotes, Fox Squirrels, Great Horned Owls, House Finches, Northern Cardinals, Northern Flickers, Oklahoma, Painted Lady Butterflies, Pine Siskins, Sebastian County, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Three-toed Box Turtles, Tufted Titmouses|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I'm sharing a bunch of bird and wildlife photos that I have recently photographed in my friend Steve's yard in Arkansas, and from Sequoyah NWR in Oklahoma.

Male Northern Flicker Images

By |May 4th, 2022|Categories: Birds, Clark County, Idaho, Northern Flickers, Targhee National Forest|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

This morning I am sharing a few male Northern Flicker images that I took seven years ago at the edge of a mountain forest in the Targhee National Forest in Idaho.

Adult Female Northern Flicker Foraging In Hawthorns

By |September 29th, 2020|Categories: Birds, East Canyon, Morgan County, Northern Flickers, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

This adult female Northern Flicker and a male were both foraging for hawthorn berries when I spotted them from across a creek high in the Wasatch Mountains.

Nesting Northern Flickers Provide Nests For Other Birds

By |May 1st, 2020|Categories: Birds, Clark County, Idaho, Northern Flickers, Targhee National Forest|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

By excavating their own nests Northern Flickers provide nests for other woodland birds that can't excavate nesting cavities on their own and those nests can be used over and over again. Nature is brilliant.

Immature Northern Flicker In The Wasatch Mountains

By |August 24th, 2019|Categories: Birds, Morgan County, Northern Flickers, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

This immature Northern Flicker was one of the last birds I spotted and photographed three days ago while up in the Wasatch Mountains and I was happy that she stayed long enough for me to take a nice series of images of her.

Photographing a Male Northern Flicker Excavating a Nesting Cavity

By |March 23rd, 2018|Categories: Birds, Clark County, Idaho, Nesting Birds, Northern Flickers, Targhee National Forest, Wildlife Ethics|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I dug into my archives and picked these Northern Flicker photos from May of 2015 to share today because I saw a Northern Flicker yesterday and thought of how they will soon start excavating their nesting cavities to rear their young in.

Northern Flicker Letting The Chips Fall Where They May

By |May 5th, 2015|Categories: Birds, Clark County, Idaho, Northern Flickers, Targhee National Forest|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I could hear the Northern Flicker excavating inside the nesting cavity and when he would stop he would appear with a bill full of shavings and forcefully eject them from the cavity.

Male Northern Flicker in its nesting cavity

By |June 20th, 2013|Categories: Birds, Madison County, Montana, Northern Flickers|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I was photographing some Pine Siskins along a road in Madison County, Montana when this male Red-shafted Northern Flicker stuck his head out of his nesting cavity in an aspen and surprised me.

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