One of my goals during my landscaping project was to plant lots of “food” plants close to the house. I can see
this barrel cactus from 3 rooms so when this male Gilded Flicker flew in yesterday afternoon, I ran for my camera.
Canon 100-400mm at 400mm with a 1.4x teleconverter.
Click here to hear their calls.
Beautiful photo, Marianne. We have red-shafted flickers here and they, like your gilded flicker, are such handsome birds. — Carol Leigh