Red-shafted

Male Northern Flicker Images

By Mia McPherson|May 4th, 2022|Categories: Birds, Clark County, Idaho, Northern Flickers, Targhee National Forest|Tags: adult, aspen, clinging, Colaptes auratus, flicker, flickers, forest, male, mountains, nesting cavity, nesting tree, Northern Flicker, peeking, Populus tremuloides, Quaking Aspen, Red-shafted, spring, tree, woodpecker, woodpeckers|

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.

Male Northern Flicker in its nesting cavity

By Mia McPherson|June 20th, 2013|Categories: Birds, Madison County, Montana, Northern Flickers|Tags: adult, aspen, Colaptes auratus, flicker, flickers, forest, male, nest, nesting behavior, nesting cavity, nesting tree, Northern Flicker, Populus tremuloides, Quaking Aspen, Red-shafted, tree, wildlife, woodpecker, woodpeckers|

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.