Northern Flicker (Woodpecker)

ANAYV · Apr 15, 2020

First time getting decent shots of this guy.

Taken doing my daily walk to get out and about.

Being safe..wearing mask...keeping distance between folk.

Here's the local park that I visit:

Above shots taken with P950.

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Neutral Pic Control with sharpening at 0

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Edited with FastStone Image viewer

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ANAYV

lleider · Apr 15, 2020

Very nice.

Thanks for sharing pictures and settings.

Have you tried Bird Mode?

L Leider

Augustin Man · Apr 15, 2020

Very interesting! Is that bird native to the American continent, because I never saw it here in Europe?

Congratulations my friend and happy shooting,

Augustin

KJaay · Apr 15, 2020

These shots are excellent as always, top notch!

ANAYV · Apr 15, 2020

lleider said:
Very nice.

Thanks.

lleider said:
Thanks for sharing pictures and settings.

Your welcome.

lleider said:
Have you tried Bird Mode?

Only once. So can't comment on how it works.

Seems it sets/controls some of the settings , and limits user adjustments.

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ANAYV

Marcodpr · Apr 16, 2020

Sweet

ANAYV · Apr 16, 2020

Augustin Man said:
Very interesting! Is that bird native to the American continent, because I never saw it here in Europe?

It is native to most of North America, parts of Central America, Cuba, and the Cayman Islands, and is one of the few woodpecker species that migrate.

Augustin Man said:
Congratulations my friend and happy shooting,

Augustin

Stay Healthy friend.

ANAYV

Kate R · Apr 17, 2020

These are all beautiful!

What a lovely place to have your daily walk and amazing to see birds like that. The different shots give a lovely feel for its character.

Catherine.

Sactojim · Apr 17, 2020

Beautiful Flicker! Your photos continue to impress.

Stephen McDonald · Apr 18, 2020

Very nice captures. I tried for years, before I finally got a decent video of a flicker. They don't hold still for long or stay in one place.

ANAYV · Apr 18, 2020

KJaay said:
These shots are excellent as always, top notch!

Thanks KJ.

Having lots of fun with this camera.

Stay healthy

ANAYV

ANAYV · Apr 18, 2020

Marcodpr said:
Sweet

Thanks .

ANAYV

ANAYV · Apr 19, 2020

Kate R said:
These are all beautiful!

Thanks Catherine.

Kate R said:
What a lovely place to have your daily walk and amazing to see birds like that.

Funny thing, i never knew so much wildlife was withing this park.

I used to visit zoos a lot, to capture photo's of wildlife...until my Mother in Law came to stay with me and wife for few moths.

where she is from, super hot ...so I'd come home from work, and she doesn't like Air conditioning...so off i went to the park and camera, figuring if I will be hot, might as well be outside.

Well, that opened up a door of opportunities in for me....all in this park !

Kate R said:
The different shots give a lovely feel for its character.

Catherine.

Glad you enjoyed them.

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ANAYV

p900learner · Apr 21, 2020

I looked at your photos several times of the Flickr, kept coming back when it dawned on me this Northern Flicker is the Yellow Shafted one. Very rare in my mid-west U.S. area. We have the Red Shafted ones.

The grey head, with face and throat brown. I looked @ 100% zoom, and could see the yellow shaft. Red-shafted Flickers have gray heads, throats, and napes, and their foreheads are brown. There are other differences male and female.

If not mistaken this one is a female.

Lovely photos of a stunning bird. I get them in my yard.

Ev

ANAYV · Apr 21, 2020

p900learner said:
I looked at your photos several times of the Flickr, kept coming back when it dawned on me this Northern Flicker is the Yellow Shafted one

Yes. Thats what it said when I looked it up. I hardly know any names of birds.

p900learner said:
. Very rare in my mid-west U.S. area. We have the Red Shafted ones.

p900learner said:
The grey head, with face and throat brown. I looked @ 100% zoom, and could see the yellow shaft. Red-shafted Flickers have gray heads, throats, and napes, and their foreheads are brown. There are other differences male and female.

If not mistaken this one is a female.

I see.Thanks for the detailed info about this interesting bird, Ev!

p900learner said:
Lovely photos of a stunning bird. I get them in my yard.

Ev

Thanks.

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ANAYV

p900learner · Apr 21, 2020

ANAYV said:
p900learner said:

I looked at your photos several times of the Flickr, kept coming back when it dawned on me this Northern Flicker is the Yellow Shafted one

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Yes. Thats what it said when I looked it up. I hardly know any names of birds.

ANAYV said:

. Very rare in my mid-west U.S. area. We have the Red Shafted ones.

The grey head, with face and throat brown. I looked @ 100% zoom, and could see the yellow shaft. Red-shafted Flickers have gray heads, throats, and napes, and their foreheads are brown. There are other differences male and female.

If not mistaken this one is a female.

Click to expand...

I see.Thanks for the detailed info about this interesting bird, Ev!

ANAYV said:

Lovely photos of a stunning bird. I get them in my yard.

Ev

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Thanks.

Stay healthy

ANAYV

And I wrote that about the Red Shafted N. Flicker being the common one in my are exactly backwards - just like the one you photographed the Yellow Shafted, this is also the common one in my area. Sorry for the confusion.

And you stay healthy as well.

Ev

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