The columbine had eight inches of new growth in January, and two summers ago found a red-shafted flicker lying in the alley behind my house with grass in its throat and wasps crawling in and out of its mouth. ❋ David (2008)
Some of the more common birds are the northern pygmy-owl, olive warbler, red-faced warbler, hepatic tanager, mountain bluebird, pygmy nuthatch, white-breasted nuthatch, Mexican junco, Steller's jay, red-shafted flicker and the Rocky Mountain sapsucker. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The most abundant resident birds are the bushtit, pinyon jay, plain titmouse, black-chinned hummingbird, Woodhouse's jay, red-tailed hawk, golden eagle, red-shafted flicker, and rock wren. ❋ Unknown (2009)
As he smoked, a red-shafted flicker hammered away at the top of a barren hemlock. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But then I realize that out West the flickers are red-shafted. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Wedaju conducted me to one of the lesser buildings where a dignified old file in red-bordered shama and turban, sporting a fine white beard and bearing a red-shafted spear of office, ran a cold eye over me; they conversed in Galla, and at last the chamberlain, as I took him to be, made a stately departure, and Wedaju held out his hand and demanded my Joslyn. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (2005)
Gawaine's hands were shaking as he fit another arrow to the string, but before he could loose it, Cedric bellowed, "Down there, you lads!" and his own red-shafted bolt came streaking across the clearing. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1993)
Gawaine's hands were shaking as he fit another arrow to the string, but before he could loose it, Cedric bel - lowed, "Down there, you lads!" and his own red-shafted bolt came streaking across the clearing. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1993)
On each side of the head are five feathers of the red-shafted flicker. ❋ Katharine Berry [Editor] Judson (N/A)
Flicker (Coleptes caffer collaris) — Feathers of the red-shafted flicker. ❋ Unknown (1937)
The red-shafted lark-woodpecker is Colaptes mexicanus. ❋ Unknown (1904)
Here was that queer little midget of the Rockies, the broad-tailed humming-bird, which performs such wonderful feats of balancing in the air; the red-shafted flicker; the western robin, singing precisely like his eastern half-brother; a pair of house-wrens guarding their treasures; Lincoln's sparrows, not quite so shy as those at Moraine ❋ Unknown (1896)
In the same interest I desire to add that mountain chickadees, hermit thrushes, warbling vireos, and red-shafted flickers belong to my Breckenridge list. ❋ Unknown (1896)
In the afternoon we made our way, with not a little laborious effort, to the farther end of the lake, across which a red-shafted flicker would occasionally wing its galloping flight; thence through a wilderness of large rocks and fallen pines to a beckoning ridge, where, to our surprise, another beautiful aqueous sheet greeted our vision in the valley beyond. ❋ Unknown (1896)
A minute after emerging from the tunnel's mouth I caught sight of a red-shafted flicker which went bolting across the narrow valley. ❋ Unknown (1896)
At the timber-line there were ruby-crowned kinglets, mountain chickadees, and gray-headed juncos, while far above this wavering boundary a pair of red-shafted flickers were observed ambling about among the bushes and watching me as intently as I was watching them. ❋ Unknown (1896)
The next morning, in addition to the birds already observed in the valley, I listened to the theme-like recitative of a warbling vireo, and also watched a sandpiper teetering about the edge of the water, while a red-shafted flicker dashed across the lake to a pine tree on the opposite side. ❋ Unknown (1896)
Why is the yellow-shafted flicker of the East replaced in the West by the red-shafted flicker? ❋ Unknown (1896)
A red-shafted flicker flew across the vale and called, "Zwick-ah! zwick-ah!" and then pealed out his loud call just like the eastern yellow-shafted high-holder. ❋ Unknown (1896)
The huge crow-like pileolated woodpecker with its scarlet crest, the red-shafted flicker, the Sierra creeper, the red-breasted sap-sucker, ❋ George Wharton James (1890)
[Ewan] - "[Pounded] your Mum so hard last night that she ended up making my pole red!"
Jack (Friend) - "You were Red Shafting [my mum]?"
Ewan - "Hell Yea!"
Jack - "Cheers, she needed that!" ❋ Paco-dude (2009)
So I was finally asked out by Billy last night. Everything went well, food was good, and we went to an awesome concert. But it all [went downhill] [in the bedroom] when he asked me to give him a red [shaft]. ❋ A Wave Of Babies TWAS (2009)
