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Community => Photo & Video => Topic started by: grandpawrichard on October 22, 2008, 05:12:16 PM

Title: Need help in Identification
Post by: grandpawrichard on October 22, 2008, 05:12:16 PM: This afternoon I had a bird smack into our front room window and I mean really smack into it! It didn't kill the bird, but it sure made him lay on our front sidewalk for about 10 minutes.
I grabbed my camera and went out to take some photos because I couldn't find a picture of it in our bird books. Does anyone know what kind of bird this is?

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Luckily the poor bird survived the ordeal and finally flew away. I bet it wondered what that big goofy looking thing was that had a massive beard and a big black thing with a huge eye on the front that kept getting so close and making clicking sounds. ;) :)

Dick
Title: Re: Need help in Identification
Post by: robodad on October 22, 2008, 05:21:23 PM: Them are sure some tiny photos GPR, What happened to your camera !! :chuckle:
Title: Re: Need help in Identification
Post by: Curly on October 22, 2008, 05:24:09 PM: It kind of looks like a Flicker, but I don't think they have that many spots.
Title: Re: Need help in Identification
Post by: Timberstalker on October 22, 2008, 05:25:41 PM: Flicker x2
Title: Re: Need help in Identification
Post by: elkwarrior on October 22, 2008, 05:28:35 PM: It's a Flicker. Birds constantly are attacking my house.

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Northern_Flicker.html
Title: Re: Need help in Identification
Post by: boneaddict on October 22, 2008, 05:32:03 PM: Flicker. Go out and blow your predator call. You know you are doing it right if they show up.
Title: Re: Need help in Identification
Post by: robodad on October 22, 2008, 05:33:10 PM: I was going to say one of the thrush family but it does look like those flickers too !!
Title: Re: Need help in Identification
Post by: grandpawrichard on October 22, 2008, 05:40:24 PM: Wow! You guys are Fast! :) I have lived here in Washington all my life and this is The First one of these birds I have ever seen! :o :dunno:
He was a pretty good sized bird too! He was laying broadside on the sidewalk and he took up 1/2 of it! :o
I was sure glad to see him get up on his feet and finally fly away! :) I was even more than happy to be able to get within inches of him to photograph him. :)

I guess it pays to always have a camera ready to grab some photos at a moments notice! ;) :)

Dick
Title: Re: Need help in Identification
Post by: saylean on October 22, 2008, 05:40:46 PM: You mean it ran right into trouble although it should have been able to see right through it...?!~

I would say its an Obama voter... :chuckle:

pretty bird.
Title: Re: Need help in Identification
Post by: grandpawrichard on October 22, 2008, 05:49:26 PM: Quote from: saylean on October 22, 2008, 05:40:46 PM
You mean it ran right into trouble although it should have been able to see right through it...?!~

I would say its an Obama voter... :chuckle:

pretty bird.

;) :) :P :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: Or a Hilary Supporter! :yike: :) ;) :P :chuckle:

Dick
Title: Re: Need help in Identification
Post by: Kain on October 22, 2008, 06:59:48 PM: Quote from: boneaddict on October 22, 2008, 05:32:03 PM
Flicker. Go out and blow your predator call. You know you are doing it right if they show up.

Thats funny, I thought I was doing it all wrong. All I can seem to call in is flickers and hawks.
Title: Re: Need help in Identification
Post by: demontang on October 22, 2008, 07:28:06 PM: Thats a flicker, my parents have alot of them over at there place.
Title: Re: Need help in Identification
Post by: billythekidrock on October 22, 2008, 07:52:07 PM: Quote from: grandpawrichard on October 22, 2008, 05:40:24 PM
Wow! You guys are Fast! :) I have lived here in Washington all my life and this is The First one of these birds I have ever seen! :o :dunno:

I bet you have seen them before.
When you drive logging roads, etc. they will always flush and fly down the road in an up and down (flicking :dunno:) motion.
Title: Re: Need help in Identification
Post by: popeshawnpaul on October 22, 2008, 08:05:54 PM: To be exact, isn't it a Northern Flicker? I need to look in my books. I knew it was a woopecker of some sort right away.
Title: Re: Need help in Identification
Post by: demontang on October 22, 2008, 08:15:21 PM: I believe thats the full name pope
Title: Re: Need help in Identification
Post by: grandpawrichard on October 23, 2008, 09:31:09 AM: Thanks to the photos and internet postings I have learned a lot about The Northern Flicker. :) I never realized what kind of bird I would see flying beside the back roads until now. I guess it shows "you are never to old to learn something new". :) Thanks to all that helped educate me last night! :)

Dick
Title: Re: Need help in Identification
Post by: stlhdr1 on October 24, 2008, 09:45:51 AM: It's a red-shafted Flicker. We have 2 kinds around here the Red shafted and yellow shafted flickers.

Keith :)