Surely You Don’t See Me!
Northern Flicker captured by Z 9 / Z600f4TC @840mm
We know it’s winter, we have the “gang” back at our feeders. The gang is the flock, flock of Northern Flickers. At times, there are over two dozen mixing it up at the various feeders. Early in the morning, all their commotion attracts the predators and for the last ten days, a Sharpie & a Gos are present. The Sharpie is very obvious and chases everything that flies. The Gos, it wait until the Sharpie chases a flicker in its direction. We know when the predators first arrive as the older flickers freeze no matter where they might be. I was in the Hide a couple of days ago when they all froze telling me while I couldn’t see it, the predator was there. This male was at the top of the vertical perch as you can see. It froze, and didn’t even blink for almost ten minutes. Then when the coast was clear, went on its way. It stuck out like a sore thumb to me, I guess it was hoping that surely you don’t see me.
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