I finally captured the beast on film. Like the Sasquatch and the Loch Ness before it, my new bird evaded my camera for far too long…
I bring you, the foul fowl:
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Ok, Lynda, what is it?
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Date: 09/17/2006
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The beak looks like that of the woodpecker family…
My guess is that it is either a “Red-Shafted” Northern Flicker or perhaps a Gilded Flicker.
How exciting! Another new bird. I would have to agree with Hojun4 on the family. Rob, you need a bird book!!! Ask Santa for one
Cool pics. Good luck on trying to find out what kind of foul fowl it is.
ps - I didn’t tag you!
Rob, just so you know, you used the incorrect word for bird. It’s fowl, not foul.
Just so you know.
Perhaps Rob meant to say, “I bring you that foul bird at last!”
Oops! Thanks, Kim. Silly me. For the longest time, I was misspelling “cord” as “chord” too.
That’s an interesting looking bird. We have woodpeckers that like to bang on our guttering at 6:00 am!! Hope this one doesn’t do that to you. Has it discovered your upscale urinal?
Time to investigate. Will see what I can find out.
Cute!
Rob how often doo ewe really knead too ewes the word cord or chord anyway? I’m just saying…
My contact has not been able to identify the elusive bird. It will have to remain a mystery for the time being.
The elusive bird has been identified!
I was doing some investigation of my own through the internet and was getting somewhat closer, … but called in some more via the internet.
So, with a big thanks to Bill Schmoker from http://www.schmoker.org :
” That’s a Northern Flicker. The red malar stripe (below its bill) tells me its a male and it is the red-shafted subspecies. (Yellow-shafted birds have red on their napes and a black malar stripe.) “
Cool, Ice. Thanks for the sleuthing!