A Northern Flicker shot through my kitchen window. |
Northern Flickers are woodpeckers with handsome black-scalloped plumage, a black on white speckled breast, and with a flash of red at the back of their heads. Flickers may be woodpeckers but they love to dine on easily found ants and beetles which can be dug up with their long, slightly curved beak.
These are not uncommon in our backyard and I shot this one with my Fuji FinePix HS10 zoomed to the max and pressed against a kitchen window. I'm glad my wife cleaned those windows! There is still a little distortion from shooting obliquely through a couple of layers of insul-glass.
3 comments:
Great shot of the woodpecker.
Great blog, lovely photos and interesting information- thanks!
Chrissy
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Nice pic ! Here in Montreal, sometimes I hike up to our Mont Royal for bird-watching. I once saw a pileated woodpecker... my one and only.
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