This morning after viewing the Green-tailed Towhee in Mountain Lake, Ben Fritchman, John and Chris Hockema, Jeff Stephenson, Jerry Pruet, and I found a Red-shafted Northern Flicker in the cemetery on the southeast side of Windom. The bird was an adult female and showed no signs of hybridization with Yellow-shafted. A very cool bird...the first I have seen in MN. Note that the Red-shafted and Yellow-shafted Flicker are considered to be one species, the Northern Flicker.
Bob Dunlap, Nicollet County
