{"id":28290,"date":"2015-09-15T05:27:49","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T11:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=28290"},"modified":"2026-02-06T06:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T12:29:09","slug":"a-northern-flicker-on-a-fence-post-in-the-centennial-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2015\/09\/15\/a-northern-flicker-on-a-fence-post-in-the-centennial-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Flicker On A Fence Post In The Centennial Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NorthernNorthern Flicker on a fence post in the Centennial Valley – Nikon D810, f6.3, 1\/3200, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light
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Early on the second morning when I was in Montana last week I was able to photograph this male Northern Flicker on the side and top of a weathered fence post. I often see Northern Flickers in the Centennial Valley but rarely do they stick around long enough to get photographs of them.<\/p>\n

Most of the time I see them flying away or diving down into the brush, in fact I haven’t been able to get this close to a flicker since May of this year at the Magical Sapsucker Tree<\/a><\/span> before someone chopped it down and all the nests in the tree were lost.<\/p>\n

This flicker seemed to be enjoying the warmth of the rising sun, it was pretty chilly that morning.<\/p>\n

I am always happy to photograph woodpeckers of any kind especially when they are out in the open like this Northern Flicker.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Northern Flicker photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Early on the second morning when I was in Montana last week I was able to photograph this male Northern Flicker on the side and top of a weathered fence post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1513,27,223,12,2255],"tags":[4004,2257,3830,898,3705,4931,4062,3704,4104,5434,8917,2146],"class_list":["post-28290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beaverhead-county-montana","category-avian","category-centennial-valley","category-montana","category-northern-flicker","tag-adult","tag-colaptes-auratus","tag-fence","tag-fence-post","tag-flicker","tag-flickers","tag-male","tag-northern-flicker","tag-perched","tag-valley","tag-wooden-post","tag-woodpeckers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t