They look interesting enough when hopping around on the ground, but they are absolutely beautiful when in flight. while other birds eat from the bird feeder. I have sometimes seen Northern Flicker in neighborhoods, often on the ground eating ants. All of the photos on this page are of the Yellow-shafted variety. The male has a black mustache and the female does not. They also have a red crescent on the back on their head. The underside of their wings and tail are yellow. Yellow-shafted Northern Flicker are found in northern and eastern North America. The male has a red mustache and the female does not. The underside of their wings and tail are a reddish color. Red-shafted Northern Flicker are found in western North America.

There are two variety of Northern Flicker, Red-shafted and Yellow-shafted. The Flicker's back is a barred pattern of brownish gray and black. See also Muybridge At Tate Britain and here’s some playful, animated Fun With Muybridge.The Northern Flicker has a similar body shape to the Red-bellied Woodpecker, but is a little larger. Here’s a naked man jumping over a hurdle in ten steps. Some of the darker ones resisted so I used a camera. I half expected the reflected light to be too dazzling for the scanner so that the images would be over exposed. I was surprised that I was actually able to scan these cards.

He showed that a galloping horse lifts all four hooves from the ground simultaneously. His pioneering work on animal locomotion used multiple cameras to capture motion in stop-action photographs.

The most successful cards seem to be those which use images by Eadweard Muybridge from the 1870s & 80s. This kicking mule card incorporates eight images which flicker like frames of animation. (I don’t think lenticular has anything to do with Lent in particular.) Lenticular printing is a process of combining two or more images on the surface of a corrugated plastic lens. Seen from one angle the eye is open, look again and it’s closed. We’ve been selling these ‘lenticular’ cards at The Rowley Gallery for a while now.

Flicker photography