<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Joan,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yellow-shafted flickers breed to the north of us in Alaska and northern Canada, and small numbers travel down to Washington every winter. We seem to have more hybrids than pure yellow-shafted, but the latter are to be watched for.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dennis Paulson</div><div class="">Seattle</div><div class="">dennispaulson at comcast dot net<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 5, 2026, at 10:50 AM, Joan Miller via Tweeters <<a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu" class="">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hello all,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">I have a yellow-shafted flicker coming to my suet. It clearly has yellow shafts, black malar and red on nape. I thought to call it an intergrade, but the internet says this is yellow-shafted.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Just mentioning in case anyone has seen these around. I don't think it's that rare here. But I also have our "regular" red-shafteds!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Joan Miller</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">West Seattle</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">jemskink at gmail dot com</div></div>
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