It’s been a head-scratcher for quite some time. What’s with the yellow-shafted Northern Flickers in the eastern U.S. bearing some orange feathers? (As in the photo above,...
Unlike cavity nesting ducklings which hatch precocial (eyes open, covered with down and ready to go), most cavity nesting birds hatch altricial. They are...
My nestling Red-shafted Northern Flickers (Colaptes auratus) are around two weeks old now and the adults are still entering the nestbox to feed them....
Thud! That awful sound of a bird hitting a window. What comes next? So many times these situations end badly, which is why we love...
Continuing my Northern Flicker (Collaptes auratus) nestling observations from my last post, I was amazed at what I found when I opened the nest box this...
As some of you may know, I have been monitoring about 35 nest boxes on three Bluebird Trails going on seven years now. Over the...
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