A new boarder

[Richard Flanders]

Here's a genuine yellow shafted flicker that has taken up permanent residency on my deck. He found a real nice perch on my spare wood stove. The feathers are from a real flicker that met his unfortunate demise on the peak of my shed at the hands of either an owl or more likely one of the neighborhood kestrels. I found these feathers all over the ground around the front of the shed. I know several artist ladies who make things out of feathers I save and give them and that's how this came to be. A friends wife made the whirly gig, and included the feathers, and gave them a perfect home and gifted it to me. BTW, the feather shafts really are yellow.