[Tweeters] Yellow Shafted flicker

[Adrienne Dorf]

Very interesting Paul!  The flicker was a female and I also noted that her
face was more buff than grey.  She was very beautiful and I am thrilled
that I got to see her.

Adrienne

On Mon, Jan 15, 2024, 2:57 PM Paul Bannick <paul.bannick at gmail.com> wrote:


> Hi Adrienne,

> What a wonderful surprise that must have been.  You may have had a

> Yellow-shafted Northern Flicker, but you more likely had an intergrade

> between the Red-shafted and Yelllow-shafted races showing more

> yellow-shafted features.

>

> These intergrades are quite common during the winter as the ranges between

> the two blend in band of area straddling the Great Plans and the Rocky

> Mountains moving North and West from the Mexican Border to Alaska.  During

> the winter some of the interegradeds from that "band" migrate into our

> area.   Over the time since I was a boy intergrades have become more

> common in all seasons but the most dramatically mixed ones are still winter

> visitors.

>

> You can see a couple of my examples here:

>

> https://paulbannick.photoshelter.com/image?&_bqG=2&_bqH=eJxzC8oIK4mwDDcw8wqJcPJxC8hOTE8JccwrNc.3MrMyNDAAYSDpGe8S7GybmVeSWpRelJiSquYZHxrsGhTv6WIbClJQ4WvomeuX7pgS5akW7.gcYlucmliUnAEAcfodcA--&GI_ID=

>

>

> https://paulbannick.photoshelter.com/image?&_bqG=1&_bqH=eJxzC8oIK4mwDDcw8wqJcPJxC8hOTE8JccwrNc.3MrMyNDAAYSDpGe8S7GybmVeSWpRelJiSquYZHxrsGhTv6WIbClJQ4WvomeuX7pgS5akW7.gcYlucmliUnAEAcfodcA--&GI_ID=

>

> Regards,

>

> Paul

>

> On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 1:31 PM Adrienne Dorf <adrienne at nwveggie.com>

> wrote:

>

>> I just had a "Yellow Shafted" flicker at my suet feeder in North Seattle.

>> I have never seen one before. Are they often in the PNW in the winter?

>>

>> Adrienne Dorf

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