Friday, August 1, 2008

Immature Northern Flicker

I was going to bore everyone with another smoke plume photo but the photo op and the fire petered out.

Instead though, while outside I spied an immature Northern Flicker on our fence post (about 20 yards from our front porch). While I was able to capture it with the telephoto lens, I realize I need to use my tripod for such shots.



5 comments:

Fashion Schlub said...

is a flicker a big bird? it looks quite large. i don't think we have those here.

Robin said...

Not huge (like eagles or anything). 11" - 14". They are a type of woodpecker.

Iris said...

We have flickers here - great picture.

Jai Johnson • JaiArt.Com said...

Excellent photos! I've never seen this kind of bird before. We have woodpeckers, but they don't look like this.

365DAYSINHEMETVALLEY said...

Wow, great photo. Never heard of flickers before. We have wonderful tons of crows, and some beautiful hawks -- and a woodpecker every so often -- but no flickers.