Lydia, ALL of the flickers in our neighborhood are
Orange. I mean orange like the Crayola crayon orange,
like an orange peel orange, like a carrot orange. I
always assumed that (color interpretation being the
subjective thing it can be) our Red-Shafted flickers
in this area were really orange-shafted but were just
called Red-shafted the way chestnut horses are called
"red". I've never seen a flicker with RED-red
coloration, just this orange color.

I have quite a few (10) flicker feathers from beneath
my feeder, stuck in the board by my computer here, and
they are definitely orange (varying degrees between
1635 and 1655 on my Pantone fan).

I get the feeling that somewhere, someplace, are
Red-Shafted Flickers that are MUCH more red, than
orange, and that this is one of those local phenomenon
things (I don't get out much to verify this myself).

Does anyone else who knows more about Flickers care to
enlighten us any further on this?

Danene Warnock
Bellevue, WA
northwestmom at yahoo.com


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