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Community => Photo & Video => Topic started by: lokidog on June 26, 2013, 10:36:36 PM
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So, I'm driving to work today and I see something on the side of the road. As I pass by, my thought was little owl, maybe hit by a car. I get out and walk back to it to discover this little headless bird, WTH? Oh, guess he's just sleeping.... After a few pictures, he gets bored and tucks his head back in to resume his nap. I wake him again to see if he is hurt. I pick him up and he sits calmly on my hand, but before I can snap a photo, he flies away.
Enjoy the photos taken with my cell phone.
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Very cool.
Hope it learns to fly soon or will become dinner for something
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I have never seen a baby Flicker, that is cool!
Here is a couple of the Flickers that visit my feeders.
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Hey Lokidog, about how big was the litter guy? The reason I ask is that two winters ago I thought I a had an owl spending several days a week in the wave of my house. He tucked his head in a corner and would ignore me. He was tiny..about the size of a baseball when all puffed up. It was February and cold outside but obviously warmer under the wave near an attic vent. Seeing your pictures makes me think it was a baby flicker based on coloring, tail feathers, and the look of his feet. Seemed like the wrong time of year for such a baby flicker though.
It might explain why I had to fight an epic non lethal battle with flickers trying to destroy my house siding this spring though.
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Baseball to girl's softball sized. Probably a flicker unless you had a good flat area for an owl to sit. Flickers can hang/sleep vertically with very little for their claws to hook. I think owls perch more than hang because of the shape of their feet.
We battled the flickers at my old house as well.
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what a cute little guy wonder if he got bonked and stunned?
I had a flicker finally kill itself after going into my shop and whamming the window...not once or twice but a daily event for a week that ended with its death....all the other birds managed to go out the giant doors not the flicker he/she would freak the heck out and slam into the window, flighty.
