From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Fri Dec 10 15:24:27 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iBANKUlI002903 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:20:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from hotmail.com (bay4-dav15.bay4.hotmail.com [65.54.170.119]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iBANJ2YK002861 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:19:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:19:01 -0800 Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Received: from 4.182.0.52 by BAY4-DAV15.phx.gbl with DAV; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 23:18:44 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [4.182.0.52] X-Originating-Email: [[[email protected]]] X-Sender: [[email protected]] From: "LINDA ADAMS" <[[email protected]]> To: "south-bay-birds" <[[email protected]]> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:18:33 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: MSN 9 X-MimeOLE: Produced By MSN MimeOLE V9.10.0009.2900 Seal-Send-Time: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:18:33 -0800 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Dec 2004 23:19:01.0868 (UTC) FILETIME=[A24C92C0:01C4DF0E] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5b1 Subject: [SBB] Almost Yellow-shafted Flickers X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5b1 Precedence: list List-Id: South Bay Birding List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Errors-To: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by plaidworks.com id iBANKUlI002903 Hello SBBers, The Yellow-shafted Flicker pair that I reported in our yard in San Martin recently is almost, but not quite. Both have a red nape crescent; the male has a black malar; their ears and throats appear to be brown; their crowns appear to be gray; BUT their shafts are salmon-red! We then went over to Coyote Lake Park behind our property to check for hybrid characteristics on the flickers in the park. To our surprise, out of all the flickers that we found in the park, we could only detect Red-shafted Flicker characteristics. As the story continues, the flickers broke into the attic through the ventilation vents while we were out birding, and have been spending early mornings in the yard. There are also sounds up in the attic at night. No drumming yet, I'm happy to report. Just in case they prove everyone wrong and decide to nest here, I am modifying a nesting box specifically for them. The nestbox is so attractive that anyone would love to live in it and I only wish that it was a little bigger in case the flickers evict us from the house. Linda Adams San Martin (the Flicker Family's downstairs tenant) _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. south-bay-birds mailing list ([[email protected]]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://www.plaidworks.com/mailman/options/south-bay-birds/south-bay-birds-archive%40plaidworks.com This email sent to [[email protected]]