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:
Ok, Lynda, what is it?
The elusive new bird
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13 responses to “The elusive new bird”
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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.
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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 🙂
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Cool pics. Good luck on trying to find out what kind of foul fowl it is.
ps – I didn’t tag you!
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Rob, just so you know, you used the incorrect word for bird. It’s fowl, not foul.
Just so you know.
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Perhaps Rob meant to say, “I bring you that foul bird at last!” 😆
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Oops! Thanks, Kim. Silly me. For the longest time, I was misspelling “cord” as “chord” too. 🙂
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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? 😆
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Time to investigate. Will see what I can find out.
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Cute!
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Rob how often doo ewe really knead too ewes the word cord or chord anyway? I’m just saying…
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My contact has not been able to identify the elusive bird. It will have to remain a mystery for the time being.
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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.) “
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Cool, Ice. Thanks for the sleuthing!
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