Hi Tweets:
I saw an intergrade N Flicker today at Kent Ponds. This bright male had red
moustache marks, plus a red crescent on the nape, and quite colorful yellow
shafts. This is my first intergrade Red-shaft/Yellow-shaft flicker of the
season.
Carol Schulz
DesMoines
linusq at att.net
P.S. The barometer is plunging...
----- Original Message -----
From: "hrudkaj mary" <hrudkajm at hotmail.com>
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 3:27 PM
Subject: [Tweeters] Yellow-shafted Flicker


> I've had a couple flickers in the yard the past couple days and haven't
> really paid much attention to them until this afternoon as they were
> feeding on the lawn just a few feet from the house. I noticed the male
> had black 'whiskers' and a discreet red vee on the nape of its neck. As I
> looked more closely with my handy binoculars I could see the yellow under
> tail feathers. It's face has much more brown on it than the female
> western, red-shafted it's hanging around with.
>
> As they continued to poke their beaks into the ground and grass I thought
> they made a wonderful pair of environmentally friendly lawn aerators. Not
> to mention all the insects they must be reaping on this very warm fall
> afternoon.
>
> Must be part of the avian exchange program.....
>
> Mary Hrudkaj
> hrudkajm at hotmail.com
> Belfair, north Mason County