Thursday, April 10, 2014

Fledgling flickers, feeding

Entertaining evenings these days: watching a family of northern flickers leave their nest in a hollow tree on the edge of our creek. The young ones are old enough to fly out of the nest but still too young to feed themselves, so we've been watching the adults feeding them. Yesterday I saw six at once--four flickers on the nesting tree and two on the next one over. It's hard to get good photos, however, because they're always on the move, up in trees, often with the sun behind them. These are my best shots.






 

6 comments:

radagast said...

Beautiful birds. And you've captured them beautifully.

Bev said...

Thanks! They make me very happy.

Bardiac said...

Oh, beautiful!

You must be a month ahead of us in bird terms?

Bev said...

Yes, although things seem to be changing really quickly. We still had juncos around the feeders halfway through the week, but now they're gone and the spring birds are becoming more visible. Maybe they've been here a while but the weather was too horrible to allow us to notice.

JaneB said...

The first shot is so beautiful! Love it!

Bev said...

Thanks! I love how all that flashy gold remains hidden unless they're in flight. Amazing birds.