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Louis champan

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During this time of year my backyard draws a number of different Woodpeckers and their young. This particular Flicker comes has come to my backyard every day for the past few weeks.

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Wow, excellent set Louis. I get a Flicker or two in late Winter and only for a couple of days. Didn't have one this year though.
 
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LUCKY YOU! Nice in-flight positions and the backgrounds are pretty good. Recently I found a flicker nest along a road in BC. I stood there a long time trying to get flight shots. I got 2 in-flight shots, but the backgrounds were terrible.
 
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Butlerkid said:
LUCKY YOU! Nice in-flight positions and the backgrounds are pretty good. Recently I found a flicker nest along a road in BC. I stood there a long time trying to get flight shots. I got 2 in-flight shots, but the backgrounds were terrible.
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Appreciate it Karen, I guess I'm lucky to have these guys in my backyard everyday.
Irap said:
Super shots Louie, love them all!
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Many thanks Ira.
gammabird said:
The third one is my favorite. I was in the park the other morning getting some shots of these but they were no where close to the quality of these! mad props!
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Thanks for commenting. I live up against a greenbelt so I'm fortunate to have some natural looking backdrops.
 
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Really nice set of shots Louis, I love flickers they are by far my favourite woodpecker species, they really are skittish birds and rarely let you get anywhere near them. I love capturing them in flight with their wings extended to capture their amazing wing colour and pattern. We have the yellow-shafted versions here in my area.
 
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gammabird said:
The third one is my favorite. I was in the park the other morning getting some shots of these but they were no where close to the quality of these! mad props!
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Jose Raposo said:
Really nice set of shots Louis, I love flickers they are by far my favourite woodpecker species, they really are skittish birds and rarely let you get anywhere near them. I love capturing them in flight with their wings extended to capture their amazing wing colour and pattern. We have the yellow-shafted versions here in my area.
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Thanks Jose, they are skittish no doubt and I too try getting them in flight, not always easy to get.
 
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Really nice shots! They are quite stunning indeed. We have Northern Flickers (red-shafted variety seen predominantly in Western US) frequent our yard nearly every day as well. Always a great species to photograph.
 
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We have regular Northern Flickers visiting us in North Delta, BC. They have beautiful colours but consistently annoy us in the spring drumming on our chimney covers early in the morning which vibrates through our house. I really like your flight shots as they are so difficult to capture.
 
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