"The flicker is a large, foot-long brown woodpecker with a black barred back, round black spots on the breast, and a black bib on the chest." Northern flickers have three "forms": yellow-shafted, red-shafted, and gilded .... "... [The] male yellow-shafted has black mustaches and a red crescent on the back of the head. Ever ladylike, females of all forms lack the mustaches of their mates."

These birds were present from November through March.

Photo taken with a Nikon D70 using a Nikon 300mm, f/4.5 lens.

 

November 6, 2005.