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24 November 2006
So have we set a Photo Friday theme?→[More:]
If not I propose "Flyers".
Is that what it is? I thought it was some kind of wood pecker. Nothing for scale in the picture but this one was about the size of a pigeon. There were half a dozen around my Dad's place a couple of months ago.
Mitheral, just so you know, a flicker is a woodpecker. And there's different kinds of flickers, too: gilded, yellow shafted, and northern. Funny thing, I've seemingly always known they're flickers, but I never realized they were woodpeckers too until a couple of years ago.
Thanks. I guess you learn somthing everyday. The word flicker conjuress up something resembling a hummingbird I guess rather than these fairly stately specemins.