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Dave Kreft
Kettle Falls, WA
On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 10:25 AM Wim van Dam <
wim.van.dam at gmail.com> wrote:
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Hi Jim
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I wholeheartedly recommend getting a subscription to "Birds of the World"
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($49/year):
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https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/subscribe
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To your case: for Northern Flicker it has a very detailed article on
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"Plumages, Molts, and Structure".
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Wim van Dam
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Solvang, CA
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On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 10:01 AM <jimbetz at jimbetz.com> wrote:
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Hi,
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I -often- have questions that are not being answered by my useual
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sources
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(eBird, Cornell, Audubon, field guides, etc.). As just one example how
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do I
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answer the question - at what age/in what season do Flickers change from
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juvenile patterns to adult?
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When I go to any of the above usually they only have the highest level
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of info (a few pictures, range maps, and recent/historical sightings).
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I guess I'm finding my way into the areas of ornithological info ... ?
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I have posted questions to this group - maybe once or twice a quarter -
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that are along these lines and haven't gotten what I consider "the
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answers I was looking for" ... don't get me wrong, I value this
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community highly - just for different purposes.
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Since we live in Skagit County most of my "deeper questions" are about
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the birds that show up here ... in all seasons.
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- Jim
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P.S. I had a first ever sighting event this morning. Early on, before
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they flew off to where ever they went to today, there was a group of
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swans (probably all Trumpeters) that had obviously spent the night on a
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bend of the Skagit River! We look down on that large S-curve in the
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Skagit that is East of the Gardner Road Launch Ramp and there they were
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in a 'line' on the slow side of the sand bar. Water does flow thru
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that area but it is not the primary path for the flow - that's on the
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other side of the same bar (just East of where I saw them). I'm seeing
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about 4 or 5 birds "just lifting off and moving" from that location
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right now. Sorry, too far away for a picture.
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