After all the chatting about intermediate flickers, one just appeared
in my yard and is chowing down on the suet feeder outside my window.
It's got a pure red malar stripe and no trace of red on the collar,
typical Red-shafted characters, but yellow wings & tail! Maybe slightly
oranger than a typical Yellow-shafted, but quite yellow. The head is
evenly brownish, without the contrast of gray and brown of either
Yellow-shafted or Red-shafted. With flickers in the yard, who could be
bored?

There is an immature female Cooper's Hawk hanging around the
neighborhood, and I see it in my yard frequently. I'm surprised that it
isn't cleaning up on flickers and jays, but perhaps they are formidable
prey, as they're both adapted for pecking mightily.

Dennis Paulson
1724 NE 98 St.
Seattle, WA 98115
206-528-1382