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I can almost see Saturday from here.

Hazily lit photo of a Northern flicker sitting upright in left-facing profile behind a climbing branch of Oregon grape that curls up around and behind em like the illumination of some woodland manuscript. The grape branches erupt upwards in a braid of woodbine from several clusters of spiky red and olive leaves, dozens of dusky blue berries like clusters of miniature grapes hanging from red stems in heavy sprays. The flicker's almond breast, covered in eyelets of black spots like a smoothed, fluttery blouse, puffs up proudly from behind the grapes, and eir black collar shows solemnly beneath eir soft grey face with its chestnut crown and brilliant red teardrop moustache. The scene is like a frontispiece to a legend of Northwest birds, the flicker looking out across the long pencil tip of eir bill at the chaparral woods which glow in a soft, shadowy canopy all around em.
26 September at 14:08 | Open on sunny.garden
17 comments
val dillyd

@handmade_ghost
That flicker knows how to accessorize to emphasize their colors

26 September at 14:10 | Open on turtleisland.social
handmade ghost

@dillyd E literally flew up there and asked me, "Is this my best side?" 😂🥹

26 September at 14:12 | Open on sunny.garden
MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸

@handmade_ghost 'E's so well coordinated e should be on a catwalk 🥰

26 September at 14:15 | Open on syzito.xyz
Coach Mark McSwearsalot
handmade ghost

@CoachMark Thank you! I love the soft coloring of flickers.

26 September at 14:39 | Open on sunny.garden
Julé Cunningham

@handmade_ghost Oh wow, what a beauty! Bird and photo, that is.

26 September at 14:41 | Open on sunny.garden
Idzie
handmade ghost

@idzie Everything looked sort of dusty/soft-penciled and blended yesterday.

26 September at 15:53 | Open on sunny.garden
Maxime Chambonnet

@handmade_ghost now this is some dedication to #alttext :ablobcathappypaws:

26 September at 17:05 | Open on mastodon.zaclys.com
Mrs Raven

@handmade_ghost

Flickers look so natty in their little golf sweaters.

26 September at 17:17 | Open on mstdn.social
handmade ghost

@cassandracorvid Yes! I always think of them as wearing fluttery little blouses with lots of eyelet lace on them. They are so dressy and charming!

26 September at 17:18 | Open on sunny.garden
Aviva Gary
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