Please excuse this resend, but I am having trouble with my e-mail and don't see this posted in the digest yet. I hate to be a pest! Would like more input if anyone interested in the yellow shafted flicker in my yard. Will she breed with a red?
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From: dmcdoug
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 10:44 AM
Subject: Yellow Shafter Flicker in Lynnwood


Resend to Tweeters (with revisions):
A yellow shafted flicker has been visiting my feeder off and on all winter. I have lots of red shafted, and this yellow seems to drop in for the suet just now and again. Since it is hanging upside down on the suet, the bright yellow tail feathers are in good view, as are the under-wings when the bird flies off. There is no moustache, so must be a female. My feeder is located at the edge of a small wooded wetland, with a few dead trees that seem to attract flickers, downy and pileated woodpeckers. Since my first note on 2/4, I talked to my sister, next door neighbor, master birder (all the same person) and she confrims it is defintiely a yellow shafted female. We keep watching for her (the bird, not my sister) to return.

I am a strict amateur and am not familiar with "interglades". Not being very good at field notes, I don't remember if there was a red nape. When I get another look, I'll take notes!

Diane McDougall
dmcdoug at msn.com
Lynnwood, Washington

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