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| A Red-Shafted Flicker tail feather (Scott convinced me) |
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| Mesquite Trees are starting to leaf out |
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| On the road behind the mountain |
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| Border Patrol vehicle in the outback |
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| Jet contrail across the moon's face |
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| You know it's hot when Becca seeks out shade |
Monday, April 1, 2013
Summer-like Spring Day
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Black-chinned Hummingbird We had a good, semi-long hike this morning, adding distance by doing a bit of bushwhacking over to the saddle sout...
4 comments:
I wonder what the Border Patrol was doing there?
Packrat: Have you ever spotted Northern "Red-shafted" Flickers in the area? Though there aren't any stipples of white on your feather like most woodpecker feathers bear, the red shaft surely is suggestive. The feather may also be a tail feather of the flicker, which may not have any white stippling.
I've enlarged the image and the small pointed tip on the feather is more and more suggestive to me of a flicker tail feather.
Scott: We've seen Northern Flickers in the Sacramento Mountains, but I don't recall ever seeing one here in the lower desert. Your suggestion got me to wondering if it might be a Ladderback Woodpecker's tail feather, but the Ladderback's is white, not red. Thanks.
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