<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763">Intergrade flickers are quite common here (Port Townsend) in winter-- probably 25% of all birds. I also see them regularly (though maybe 5-10% of total) in summer as part of the breeding population, feeding young, etc. Usually those are red-shafted in most features but have a red nape mark. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763">I've only seen pure Yellow-shafted once or twice in the last 5 years, in winter.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763"> </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 5, 2026 at 6:37 PM Michael Price via Tweeters <<a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Hey tweets,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In the early 90s I was part of a breeding-bird inventory in north-central BC, near Manson Creek just W of Williston Lake. It's an area where due to openings in the boreal forest caused by *very* extensive clear-cutting, eastern avifauna were able to penetrate more and more widely into the region*, and one result was that we saw a *lot* of intergrading between Red- and Yellow-shafted Flickers, between Oregon and Slate-colored Juncos (<i>cismontanus</i> was the norm), and Red-breasted X Yellow-bellied Sapsucker hybrids.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">*that clear-cutting of the boreal forest and consequent westward colonisation resulted in a lot of eastern sparrows extremely rare in the 1970s have now become not only regular but increasingly common as wintering birds along the mid-Pacific flyway: Swamp Sparrow, Clay-colored Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow are now regular wintering species and in good numbers when once upon a time their single—even first-time—occurrence would have resulted in dropped tools and unfinished meals.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">best, m</div><div><br></div><div>Michael Price<br>Vancouver BC Canada<br><a href="mailto:loblollyboy@gmail.com" target="_blank">loblollyboy@gmail.com</a><br><br><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Every answer deepens the mystery.</span><div><font color="#333333" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:18px"> -- E.O. Wilson<br></span></font><div><div><font color="#333333" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:18px"><br></span></font><div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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</blockquote></div><div><br clear="all"></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font size="4" color="#073763"><span></span>Steve Hampton<span></span></font></div><div>Port Townsend, WA (<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">qatáy</span>)</div></div><br><div><font color="#073763"><i><br></i></font></div></div></div>