YOu probably saw a red/yellow shafted hybrid

to quote from the ABA Birding magazine:
"{PRIVATE "TYPE=PICT;ALT="}Puzzling Flickers. Where their ranges overlap, the "Red-shafted" and "Yellow-shafted" populations of the Northern
Flicker hybridize. These hybrids (or intergrades) are far more common than many birders realize. In the March/April
issue, Stephen A. Shunk tells us how to recognize hybrid flickers: the obvious hybrids (first-generation adult males), as
well as the trickier ones (females, backcrosses, etc.). In an expanded online version of the article [coming soon!], Shunk
provides considerable additional information and perspective on these puzzling-and surprisingly pervasive-flicker
hybrids."

This is a very nice article and well worth searching out

From: Sean Bull <seanbull at gmail.com>
Date sent: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 11:22:56 -0700
To: "tweeters at u.washington.edu" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Subject: [Tweeters] Gilded Flicker

> Never seen one of these before or if they are rare in Seattle. It's
> been foraging on the ground in Ballard at the corner of NW 57th and
> 15th Ave NW for about 20 min and not much is scaring it away.
>
> -Sean
> http://www.instagram.com/seanhbull/
>
>

Clarice Clark
Puyallup, WA. 98371
mailto:jbroadus at seanet.com